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July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...model building. It is therefore no great surprise that Lego has embarked on its own small space programme. Entering space Space is increasingly an integral part of our culture… It is therefore no great surprise that ... writer, and a Commissioning Editor for ROOM Space Journal. He has 40 years of experience as a satellite communications engineer and consultant to the space industry, space insurance and space education sectors. He is the author of ...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...Acta Astronautica, vol. 2, pp. 785-799, 1975. 9 B. C. Edwards, “The Space Elevator, Phase I Final Report, NIAC,” 31 October 2000. [Online]. Available: http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/472Edwards.pdf. [Accessed... 16 July 2018]. 10 B. C. Edwards, “The Space Elevator, Phase II Final Report, NIAC,” 31 January 2003. [Online]. Available: http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/521Edwards.pdf. [...
August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
...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 ...space surveillance system built by Lockheed Martin for the US Air Force, due to be operational in 2019, will revolutionize SSA by detecting orbital hazards well in advance of an eventual collision. New concepts in AI New research has shown the use of online...
16 March 2018
CSUN undergraduate published in Room, The Space Journal
... and a few other SGAC members, Perez co-authored an article recently published in Room, The Space Journal. Perez worked alongside Ph.D. candidates and was the only undergraduate student on this publication. Enabling Private...the point of view of the millennial generation, gave Perez the opportunity to write about the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, which she writes, “demonstrates a willingness by the U.S. government to allow innovation...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...in orbit as a result of human involvement that no longer serve a ‘useful’ purpose. The European Space Agency (ESA) stated in February 2020 that, according to statistical modelling, there were an estimated 34,000... could cause potentially mission-altering consequences. Given that a huge number of satellites, as well as the International Space Station (ISS), operate in LEO, it is hardly surprising that the proliferation of debris is of major concern ...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... environment, and remote sensing law & regulation. He has been a contributor to several aviation and space law focused journals, is a member of the International Institute of Space Law, is the Chair of the Legal Technical Committee with the American Institute of Aeronautics...
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 to build ... Universe’s expansion. All this serendipitous science before all the instruments have even been brought online. Complementing NIRCam is the Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), which splits light into its constituent...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... of ‘the mankind provisions’ has thus reached an impasse and, according to former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Space Law, Prof Joanne Gabrynowitz, it is “now primarily a political 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 ...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... and ExoMars. In 2014 he took up a new role at the UK Space Agency as Head of International Space Policy where he championed Space for Sustainable Development and became the UK Board Member for the International Disaster...he became the UKSA’s Chief Scientist. He retired in 2020 and continues to advocate on Space and Astronomy matters. He is a visiting Professor with the University of Leicester and a member of ROOM Space Journal’s Editorial Board.
