05 October 2015
ESTEC opens its doors, 9,000 hi-res Apollo photos go online, and other news from the weekend
... the flag. Hi-res versions of 9,200 photographs of the Apollo missions have been posted online, offering many unprecedented and often ...Got a spare $50,000? That’s the minimum bid for Apollo 15 commander David Scott’s Bulova watch, the only personal ...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... of space, they think of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Apollo programme, Space Shuttle launches, the International Space Station; all high profile human exploration programmes carried...
November 2016
Turning the Solar System into our backyard
... market, the sector’s aptitude for disruptive, game-changing innovation has been mostly lacklustre since the Apollo era. However, new methodologies such as ‘agile aerospace’ are enabling rapid design cycles of complex space systems...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
... through low-cost launch, relaxation of restrictive laws and a substantial political desire not seen since the Apollo programme, it is vital that any organisation working in this domain has a solid cybersecurity foundation. From satellite sensor...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
..., predicting what will happen next remains notoriously tricky for the vast majority of volcanic systems. A 3D view of an Apollo mission sample that has been measured using X-ray microcomputed tomography. The different shades of grey, highlight...
March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
... back and consider our planetary home in its entirety. However impressive the ‘Blue Marble’ - photographed by the Apollo astronauts in orbit around the Moon - might be, or the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ imaged by Voyager 1 six billion kilometres...
