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July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...; for example, the Saturn V manual has some 180 pages, which includes a 12-page illustrated summary of the Apollo programme. Along with its historical coverage, the lunar module booklet includes ...consultant to the space industry, space insurance and space education sectors. He is the author of six books, including The Cambridge Dictionary of Space Technology and Space: The Fragile Frontier, has edited three space industry magazines and written ...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...military’ space and ‘civilian’ space, with an all-civilian space agency, NASA. The government and media portrayal of early space was unmistakably ‘peaceful purposes’: see the film The Right Stuff, read the US-published Colliers magazine or... the case though, for space weapons, because they are the most destabilising and unpredictable element in the picture. Again, they are nothing new, as the earlier history illustrated. Such incidents have become ...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
..., and naturally this has a knock-on effect for space warfare (the diagram at the foot of page 62 illustrates the complexity of the military space infrastructure and the difficulties in defending it from multiple avenues...manner as on terrestrial battlefields. The space situation map views of these space choke points, organised according to altitude and inclination, help to illustrate the issue. To verify a space treaty the United Nations would have...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... the community. Holly is on the advisory boards for global organisations such as Space Vault, Finsophy, and STEM for Women magazine. She also sits on the Space Economy Task Force in Austin, Texas. Jeff Smith is a Material Control Analyst...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... problem and... therefore, only subject to a political solution. Without supportive political action to develop the law of space, space lawyers are reduced to the 20th century version of arguing the number of angels that can sit on the...science, economics, culture and law. She has degrees in law and physics and has written for magazines, radio and broadcast documentaries. She was recently the ‘in-house’ writer and researcher for London-based...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
...attempting to pass through state borders to seek refuge. Some global news outlets use satellite images as illustrations but a close look at some of the images reveals an interesting phenomenon: whilst large groups ... Mississippi School of Law, and his courses at the University of North Dakota include space law, history of the space age, space politics & policy, space & the environment, and remote sensing law & regulation. He has been a contributor...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
...around nearby worlds. Although we have planned extraordinary science, we cannot imagine the universe the James Webb Space Telescope is about to reveal. WST is not ‘Hubble’s Replacement’ but ‘Hubble’s Successor’, designed ...making picking up elusive photons from exoplanets much easier at these longer wavelengths. Finally, as beautifully illustrated by Hubble, shorter-wavelength infrared light allows us to peer through clouds of gas laced with cosmic...
August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
...example Variational Autoencoders (VAE), we can model the variations of the appearance of a particular space object or a class of space objects. We can also model (or interpolate) a finer variation between objects or types. ... new signature can be developed to search for these unobserved objects or behaviours. Figure 3 illustrates the so-called embedding-space of the VAE. Suspicious detections of a similar nature can be grouped or clustered together...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
...is very much worth watching because it effectively shows three points of particular interest to would-be space voyagers. First, space is tremendously inhospitable and, for now at least, living conditions are likely to be claustrophobic, .... Another one is a less well-known film called Marooned, which was released in 1969 and presciently illustrated the Apollo 13 emergency a year before it happened. An understated film in many ways, it’s another ...
