August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... that will greatly enhance or enable deep space nanosat missions include: low-power modes and duty cycling; efficient, lightweight solar arrays; greater energy storage capacity; on-board data compression; delay-tolerant networking; autonomous...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... of cars of a parking lot). There is a real hunger for data, in all sorts of spectral bands, work scale, revisit cycle, etc. Spatial resolution down to half a metre is now mainstream, the limit being currently set by WorldView 4 (a third...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
... of ADBM’s genome, it became clear to the team that the species had adopted characteristics over its evolutionary cycle allowing it to become extremely efficient at destroying biological signatures akin to those that contaminate long-duration human...
April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
... OneWeb mega-constellation. The highest earnings have been made by launching mini-satellites. Due to shorter production cycles nanosatellite (up to 10 kg) and microsatellite (10-100 kg) numbers for the forecast values in the figures (right) are going...
June 2018
Publish or perish: the astronomer’s dilemma
... up the tenure track. This often involves committing to a professional life that resembles the hamster wheel of the “cycle of observing, analysis and publishing”. From this investigation of values two opposite notions of science emerge. The first...
June 2018
Striding through space
... the MMU in place. Then you lean forward and... you’re free!” “Now detach the tether,” he continued. “I cycled the controllers, and Bob Stewart put his hand up and made sure gas was coming out...
