February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
... cross-support, including since 2011 the capability to downlink Metop data twice per orbit, once in McMurdo, Antarctica, through NOAA, and once in Svalbard, Norway. Beyond the first generation, JPS continues this cooperation and...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
... for science and industry located in orbit. Transportation technology The cost of colonisation of terrestrial mountain ranges and Antarctica is probably a thousand times cheaper than that for Mars, and it’s much more comfortable to live there...
March 2017
Space is open for business
...top climate technologies at the latest UN climate change conference. It was developed for the remote station Concordia in Antarctica and it is being used right now in Morocco. Rob Suters, managing director of IPStar BV, maintained that the challenges...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... 2015 at the Blood Falls outflows on Taylor Glacier in Antarctica. Along with the IceMole, the mission concept consists of ... terrain features is needed. The IceMole during testing in Antarctica. Also, to enable a safe landing, a hazard detection...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... the image above is composed by using three of these filters. The Australian continent is visible upper right and Antarctica lower right. Image credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... two lunar bases: one American and one Chinese/Russian. The peaceful, non-conflicting establishment of bases in Antarctica (such as Mirny, McMurdo, Zhongshan) in the post-war period is an encouraging precedent. Russia’s Luna 25 under test. About...
