September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... guidelines The topic of space sustainability has been addressed by the United Nations in a holistic manner since 2010. In 2019, the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) adopted a set of 21 consensus guidelines for...
20 April 2020
New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet
...comet. Both collected data from observations taken between December 2019 and January 2020, when the comet was at a... constant with a possible maximum occurring around 30 December 2019. From their observations, the teams calculated that 2I/Borisov...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
...was launched and deployed from a SpaceX Falcon on 21 February 2019 with an anticipated landing on the lunar surface some weeks ... the flight model prior to its planned February 2019 launch. Smithsonian approach The Smithsonian Institution’s National ...
October 2019
Skyrora – building on British space heritage
... northern Scotland in August 2018, and again in July 2019 with the launch of the Skylark Nano vehicle. Skyrora... the company’s own test facility in Scotland. Engine test in July 2019. The third stage of the XL carries the payload into orbit, following...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... Trace hydrocarbon and nitrile gases abundances in stratosphere of Titan and their evolution from 2012 to 2017 (Coustenis et al. 2019 Icarus, in press). Furthermore, after the NSE, the onset of a strong enhancement of several trace gases such as HC3N...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... middle road that I have attempted to describe in The Cosma Hypothesis: Implications of the Overview Effect (Multiverse Publishing, 2019). The hypothesis argues that the universe is interconnected, evolving and self-aware, in the sense that humans...
