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August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
...European scientific missions. By the end of 2012, some 73 Polish instruments had been launched into space. In the same year the first Polish satellite, PW-SAT (with a mass of less than 1... of the Warsaw University of Technology, the PW-SAT 2 is planned to launch into space in 2017. The above mentioned responsibilities are typical of space agencies, though in the current circumstances POLSA also undertakes responsibilities usually fulfilled by...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... citizen there is the growing reality of participating in space tourism. Blue Origin, SpaceX, Bigelow Aerospace, Space for Humanity and Virgin Galactic (which recently launched the first woman, Beth Moses, into space on a commercial spacecraft) are just a few of the...
06 April 2016
Crude oil launched into space today to study Earth's depths
... to 500 times normal pressure at sea level on Earth, making it one of the highest-pressure items ever launched into space - a feat not to be taken lightly. As such, the sturdy cylinders were built to withstand more than... Understandably then, the experiment has undergone intense testing, including vibration and shock testing to simulate launch and reentry as well as thermal cycling to reproduce the extreme changes in temperature the experiment will...
21 August 2017
First Slovak satellite launched into space
...has been launched into space. Designed and constructed completely in Slovakia by the Slovak Organisation for Space Activities (SOSA), skCUBE successfully blasted into space with the aid of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s... (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket, when it...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...the advent of technology, computer and communications networks, artificial intelligence, robotics and the ability to go into space, the rate of change in human civilization has increased exponentially. The ‘Super Month’ graphic compresses ... two minutes until midnight. The age of computers, cell phones, television, bio-engineering, megacities, space launches and spandex - all the elements of modern life we take for granted - represent only the last...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
...how to cope with what experts have recently said is the ‘absolute inevitability’ of military conflict moving into space. Delta IV Heavy. Technology and meaning Part of me, however, is concerned by the wasteful rush ... which the same agencies that repeatedly warn of the dangers of space debris will also support the efforts of entrepreneurs aiming to launch hundreds of satellites into orbit. It leads stakeholders to see the regulator as an obstacle ...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
... 13 on a Kennedy Space Center visit to witness a Space Shuttle launch - though they were not given the chance to become astronauts and the United States would not launch a woman into space until 1983, these women... contribute to scientific advances was stunted by the lack of imagination around them. Veterok and Ugolyok, launched into space on 22 February 1966 aboard the Cosmos-110 biosatellite, pictured at the Institute of Medical and Biological...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
...and impressive. In 2003, it became the third country after the US and Russia to launch a human into space and has been expanding its space programmes ever since. China made history in 2019 when it became the first to land...world. China is leveraging space for diplomacy while tapping into large future markets. It has sold low-cost commercial satellites to several countries and offered others money, training and tech to launch their own. Between 2007...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... coming years will need focused and specific global traffic magaement rules. Once Sputnik was launched, for several years, objects launched into orbit were termed artificial satellites, but today we simply know them as ... regulatory issues must find new outlets for constructive and practical decisionmaking and conflict resolution Existing space legal structures, including liability, must be reconsidered to catch up with the quickly evolving ...
