10 February 2022
SpaceX Starlink satellites fall out of sky after storm
.... "Did they later fall into a spin while in safe mode? Their efficient electric thrusters may not have had enough thrust ... drag at the low altitudes prevented the satellites from leaving safe-mode to begin orbit raising manoeuvres, and up to 40 of the...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
... goes wrong, allowing the craft to gracefully switch into safe mode. Launched in 2010, ESA’s CryoSat-2 uses an Agency-standard... part of the satellite only has one task in this mode – to establish communication with the ground so that engineers ...
June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
... to working in close coordination with JARUS23 and ICAO to ensure worldwide harmonisation References: 1: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/air/news/doc/2015-03-06- drones/2015-03-06-riga-declaration-drones.pdf 2: Small and medium-sized enterprises...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
...form in systems for which terrestrial planets may occur.’ [19] Succinctly, the method he employed has crucial failure modes that have since been recognised [29][30][31] and, in a 4.5 billion year simulation like Wetherill’s, the circumstances leading...
September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
...defused, and so one has to both prefer and accept a centralised mode of operation and a focus of efforts around one single project with...rocket. One has to both prefer and accept a centralised mode of operation and a focus of efforts around one single ...
May 2019
A matter of perspective
...from a different perspective. A work of art can trigger both aesthetic and cognitive modes of perception which can lead to an interrogation of traditional modes of thinking. Each relevant work of art should hold both aesthetic and conceptual elements...
