13 March 2019
'Marscopter' to accompany rover on Mars 2020 mission
... for the Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology (RVLT) project. This first autonomous rotorcraft will serve as a technology demonstrator and if it all goes well, then remotely explored regions of the planet’s surface could be mapped in greater detail...
07 December 2020
New Gaia data measures Solar System's acceleration
... solar system with a relative precision of 7 percent is a very important scientific result, and at the same time, it is a convincing demonstration of the quality of the new data,” says Dresden team member Professor Klioner. “The acceleration measured...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
Watching the movie The Martian recently I was captured by the creativity demonstrated by two key characters - the astronaut stranded on Mars, played by Matt Damon, and the astrodynamicist from NASA’s ...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... with acquiring the first 10 m images after the explosion of Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. SPOT 1 demonstrated one of the main benefits of commercial remote sensing for intelligence missions: that it can be shared with anyone...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... that failure cost the United States - and the world as well. If we look at history and economics, they demonstrate that the overall decline of our global society is, in no small part, due to our inability to capitalise on the Apollo...
October 2017
Colouring our view of the oceans
.... Today’s satellites are now so advanced that they can actually observe algae from space, a capability first demonstrated 40 years ago when the true extent of global living oceans was unveiled by the launch of the proof...
