November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
...1962. CONEE was an office of the Secretariat of Communications and Transport (SCT) and was devoted to doing ... develop our country, connect people, build infrastructure and communications,” Dr Mendieta Jiménez said, explaining that the agency...
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...
January 2021
Safeguarding space - lessons from decommissioning in the energy industry
... characterisation data of an identified piece of debris. Lessons from Earth There are clear lessons for the space community to learn from the development of decommis- sioning in the energy sector Each of the aforementioned terrestrial industries has...
February 2021
Satellites are key to unlocking a better-connected world
... the capability to provide targeted capacity at high speeds. Kacific services enable access to high demand applications, such as community internet access and mobile backhaul, that will help stimulate socio-economic activity throughout the region...
August 2021
Robotic systems for psychological support
... International Space Station (ISS) is currently using standard types of psychological support for astronauts: audio and video communication with relatives via satellite Internet; the ability to watch movies and TV series, and listen to music; the...
