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16 July 2018
Science begins with South Africa's super radio telescope
With a stunning image of the galactic centre to mark its inauguration, South Africa’s Deputy President Mr David Mabuza unveiled MeerKAT, a set of 64 telescopes that has already joined the ranks of the ... at the start of another one,” said SKA Director-General Prof. Phil Diamond in an address at the ceremony. “South Africa and the South African people should be proud: this is a fantastic milestone for the country, that will certainly make...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
...Russia are currently being built on the Canary Islands and in South Africa and Argentina, financed by private donations and under supervision of the Space Monitoring Laboratory at Moscow State University. We have developed and ...allows for automatic monitoring of near-Earth and outer space at all the observatories that use MASTER (Blagoveshensk, Irkutsk, Ekaterinburg, Kislovodsk, Crimea, South Africa, Canary Islands and Argentina) and it details ...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... formal Working Group to address the issue, as it had done in 2003 for space debris. Dr Peter Martinez (South Africa) was appointed chairman and its first meeting took place alongside the 53rd session of COPUOS...‘weapon’ in outer space is The GGE was formally set up at the beginning of 2012 with representatives from 15 countries: Brazil, Chile, China, France, Italy, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Romania, Russia, South Korea, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Ukraine...
July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
... long-term sustainability of outer space activities was discussed by the UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) between 2011 and 2018. Under the able chairmanship of South Africa’s Peter Martinez, it was ...a gracious attempt to reach a consensus without actually addressing the issue of deployment of weapons in outer space, a matter which belongs to the ...
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...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... System (AIS) and Internet of Things (IoT) satellites. These include Commsat, Linksure, ADA Space, Space OK, Laserfleet, Changguang Satellite Co. Ltd., Zhuhai Orbita, ZeroG Lab and Head Aerospace. International market... part of the ‘Belt and Road’ initiative, China is building trillions of dollars of infrastructure from Asia to Africa to Europe, involving roughly 70 countries, building railways, ports and energy projects, all of which involves a ...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... 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 more than 600 articles and papers on space technology. He has a BSc in...
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...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...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 Russia’s Teknika Molodezh, admire Mosfilm productions. No missiles there. At the same time, there was a parallel, typically obscured, track of military space development. The same ...
