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March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
...them much like they used various animals sent into space - a new animal is a new milestone, nothing more. As Keen mentioned, the number of women and dogs in space only evened out about seven years ago (when ...counting individual instances of dogs and women sent to space, as some have been in space more than once). Research was limited by an ...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
The world has come a long way since the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was launched in 1957. The entire planet now depends on space for economic, military, diplomatic and civilian uses and it is hard to...miscalculation and/or misperceptions. This all depends on senior leaders’ conceptions and/or fears of the threats posed by space systems to their countries’ national security or even their own political futures and, of course, the perception...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...Sputnik used a rocket initially designed as an intercontinental ballistic missile and Explorer the A-4 derived Redstone. Ironically, it was a General, also President, Eisenhower who insisted on keeping a blue sea between ‘military’ space and ‘civilian’ space, with an all-civilian space...satellite. By the 1980s, though, the concealment of military space within ‘civilian’ space by all the space powers became less and less feasible or credible A more ...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
...has made it possible to gain a deeper understanding of the regular patterns of body adjustment to the effects of space flight factors and to make significant progress in understanding a number of fundamental problems of gravitational physiology and biology. ...and Photon series. On 22 February 1966, the launch of the artificial satellite Cosmos-110 with dogs Veterok and Ugolek onboard, was carried out with a pre-1970s record 22-day flight duration. ...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... an “ideological charter for the Space Age”, having come into force in 1967 amidst the tense atmosphere of the Cold War. According to lawyer and scholar, Carol R Buxton, the launch of Sputnik in 1957 sent “waves of ... 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...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... is because they either re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere long ago and burned up - the fate that befell Sputnik in 1958, for instance - or because they’re still in orbit around the Earth, or sitting on other ...a satellite is still likely to need attitude control and thermal management to maintain its physical integrity in the space environment. There are also hazards ‘up there’ which exhibits in terrestrial museums do not have to endure. Radiation...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... clear-cut obligations and guidelines for states and space operators is essential for the long-term sustainability of space activities Immediately after the launch of Sputnik 1, over six decades ago, scientists and diplomats... met at the UN to discuss not only the regulation of space activities, but also how to...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
...by children at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center that were then beautifully quilted together by space suit manufacturer ILC Dover. HOPE was invited to participate in a display at the 2016 International Quilt ...when we make those first steps on Mars we will be wearing space suits. As we’ve seen, space suits designed for use in space have inspired space suit art, but they have also inspired fashion designers to think differently...
August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
... Using for 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. In figure ...that can be used to complement the learning process and generate ever more powerful models. The Space Fence space surveillance system built by Lockheed Martin for the US Air Force, due to be operational in ...
