February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... the others being the Outer Hebrides and Woomera, Australia. The Outer Hebrides lost out because of poor ...Black Arrow, Black Knight and Blue Streak, was eventually switched to Australia - until the launcher project was axed in 1972. The problem...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... perceptible. The astronomers use large radio dishes in Parkes, Australia, and in Green Bank, West Virginia, USA, in the...hedge their bets. Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia. Frank Drake, an astronomer who used the Green Bank ...
October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
... EMS during an emergency activation of the International Charter showing wildfires at Bendemeer, Australia, in November 2019. Bushfires spread across parts of southeast Australia from June 2019 until January 2020, burning over 18.6 million hectares...
08 September 2016
Close encounters of the asteroid kind: 2016 RB1 passes remarkably close to Earth
..., Slovak Republic, and Italy. According to Ernesto Guido, who photographed 2016 RB1 in Siding Spring, Australia, using a remotely-controlled telescope, "It was shining about as brightly as a 12th magnitude star.” The asteroid is a frequent visitor...
05 January 2018
Gilmour Space completes successful test of hybrid rocket engine
In a big leap for Australia’s New Space industry, rocket company ...planets in the solar system. Last year the company, which has operations in Queensland, Australia and Singapore, raised AUD 5 million (USD 3.7 million) in private funding from ...
16 July 2018
Science begins with South Africa's super radio telescope
...’s largest telescope in remote parts of both Africa and Australia. MeerKAT has already begun science operations and one of its...Africa. On top of that will be all of the dishes in Australia. All is all the SKA will use thousands of dishes spanning a...
