September 2016
Small launcher market survey
... put that satellite in orbit. For instance, in a web article ‘CubeSats explained and why you should build one’, the author...small satellites are so big right now,” Fortune (online article), URL: http://fortune.com/2015/08/04/small-satellites-newspace/,...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
... to Russia, then German criminal law would be engaged and Germany would have responsibility for criminal jurisdiction. Article 22 (2) then provides for the level of offence that will attract prosecution, involving misconduct on orbit that (a) affects...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... [in the US] to address recovery from such a major solar-triggered disaster since we can do nothing.’ The basis of this article is simply to argue that this is not true. There is technology that we could deploy at Lagrangian Point 1 (L-1) that could...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... to investigate what is so obviously an oxymoron? And how does this weird research justify some 1000 pages of research articles over the last 15 years? Even more strange - the discovery publication by Thomas, Morfill et al. has so far attracted...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... magazine. He thanks Jacqueline Myrrhe and William Carey for valuable opinions and support during writing of this article.
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
...by time-domain surveys. Whether fundamental or use-inspired, active research into the challenges sketched in this article is imperative not only to locating satellites and spacecraft debris but also to predicting their movement, preventing collisions...