July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... to linger for years to come. How can the space community learn from this and respond to a future pandemic in space...-compliance. When it comes to health, transparency and clear communications matter. Fearing loss of trade, travel and national pride,...
July 2020
Trailblazing STEM education
...is the role of those free-choice learning institutions in communities around the world who have been limited to offering ‘... this question while, at the same time, addressing essential community needs and positioning the Virginia Air & Space Center as ...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... before re-entering. The Humanity Star had something of an altruistic, even artistic, purpose, but the broader space community tended to view the project with hostility. As Australian academic Alice Gorman said, “Astronomers weren’t happy, saying...
October 2020
Open Source Space
... discover how similar constraints led to their inception. It is also interesting to explore how the environments, ecosystems and communities they stimulated are creating the synergies for open source systems to be applied to the space domain. Figure...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which has resulted in an increased interest within the international community as to how the use of space applications can support the realisation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Living off...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... provided the hardware on contract; the only privately-funded spacecraft were the satellites of the nascent space communications revolution. Today, of course, the NewSpace paradigm has shifted our perspective on space missions and we almost expect...
