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July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... settlers too, are currently to be found in classrooms around the world. And as our world embraces space science and space exploration on a whole new level, it is imperative that we address the question: “How will we... team. For companies like STEAMSPACE Education OutreachTM, incorporating STEAM for youth in Space Education is the guiding principle. In addition to science, technology, engineering and maths, the arts, and design in particular, will...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...enough to scale up the elevator, e.g., to 1000 mt payload. Unfortunately, very little activity of the Space Elevator community is directed to tether maintenance or growth, although, e.g., the automated replacement of railroad tracks..., vol. 152, p. 123–126, 2018. 22 J. Pearson and E. Levin, “Lunar Space Elevator Design in Lunar Space Elevators for Cislunar Space Development,” Star Inc., 2005. 23 M. Lades, “Mars Lift Update,” in IAC18, Proceedings,...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
...currently serves as an Graduate Program Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Space Studies in the John D Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences at the University of North Dakota. Prof Dodge obtained his JD from the... 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 ...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...science-grade measurements. If it’s an object we haven’t visited before a simple optical snapshot may add to our scientific knowledge, but if we’ve been a few times already we need more capable sensors. Not all the instruments we need for deep space...used for occultation. That’s quite a rich suite of science instrumentation that reflects the investment the science community has made in reducing instrument size. There is no point in arriving at an ...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
..., located in a beautiful farming valley just outside of the capital city of Australia. The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) is one of three facilities that provides two-way radio contact to around 40..., during which he has worked with organisations to promote international and domestic space science. He has been an active grassroots promoter of science to schools and the public through public speaking and media appearances and also...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
... of justice in outer space; who should be assigned as the investigatory authority and who should administer any resulting punishment? Whilst popular science fiction tends to give ...instruments which use these terms (specifically the Draft Convention on Manned Space Flight). 9 Bockstiegal, K.H., Vereschetin, V. and Gorove, S. (1991), Draft Convention on Manned Space Flight, German Journal of Air and Space Law p.3-8 10 Abeyratne, R. (2004), Space...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... interpretation 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 ...the author Angela Dennis is a writer & researcher in Brisbane, Australia, who covers topics relating to science, economics, culture and law. She has degrees in law and physics and has written for magazines...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... to be discovered, mysteries to be unravelled, and stories to be told. So, we went for the thrill, and in the name of science. Our emissaries were heroes, made of the right stuff, and the names of our rockets were borrowed...to the Moon in the name of all mankind. The first Delta IV Heavy carried not only a heavily instrumented mock-up payload, meant to accurately measure the launch environment, but also two 15 kg satellites, designed and built...
August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
...Community of Interest (ACI), several SSA workshops have been carried out with support from the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and the US European Office of Aerospace Research & Development (EOARD) ... system employing groundbased optical, radar and laser technology as well as in-orbit survey instruments. Transfer learning The space domain is rich with physical models and deterministic solutions and analytics In November 2017,...
