April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... sharing and the responsible use of space. The Combined Space Operations Initiative (CSpO) with members such as Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, The UK and USA, also aims to improve the...
April 2025
Catapult to orbit - will David finally defeat Goliath?
... relatively quiet since 2022. Launch sites in Hawaii and Alaska have been considered and, more recently, Australia has been suggested as a launch site for SpinLaunch. However, its ideas have come into conflict with...
27 July 2015
Debating Kepler 452b, Yuri Milner, and the search for intelligent life
... of discussion on the possibility of discovering life, even intelligent life, elsewhere in the cosmos. Of course, as Elizabeth Tasker at Gizmodo Australia notes, all we know about Kepler 452b comes from just two data points. Indeed, the probability...
27 November 2015
Space Elevator Could be Made out of Diamonds
... specifically could be ideal for this use. Another team of researchers, at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia conducted a series of molecular dynamics simulations and came to the conclusion that diamond nanothread material is more...
