24 April 2017
Call for international help with space debris
..., broadcast and climate-monitoring satellites,” said Holger Krag, Head of ESA’s Space Debris Office and conference chair. And, with the rise of mega constellations containing thousands of satellites that will be deployed into a low orbit...
02 June 2017
A third success for LIGO as more gravitational waves detected
... Peter Shawhan, an associate professor of physics at UMD and an LSC principal investigator who serves as Data Analysis Committee Chair for the LSC.
21 August 2017
First Slovak satellite launched into space
... potential partners around the world. “The launch of this satellite is only the beginning,” said Michaela Musilova, chair of SOSA and visiting professor at Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. “We are now focusing on the commercial and...
15 March 2018
A shining light in physics is lost
... dependent on a computerised voice system for communication, Professor Hawking held the post of Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, the chair held by Isaac Newton in 1663, holds over a dozen honorary degrees and was awarded the CBE in 1982...
17 August 2018
First international guidelines for small satellites published
... sector and a useful reference tool for those already working in the small spacecraft industry. Paul Gill, Chair of the ISO technical subcommittee that developed the document, said that up to 2 600 small spacecraft are estimated...
02 November 2018
Scientists unravel the formation history of the Milky Way
... is very exciting,” says Anthony Brown, Leiden University, The Netherlands, who is a co-author of the paper and also chair of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium Executive. This is what Gaia was built for added...
