September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
...small, self-contained modules that communicate directly with a constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Collected data is transferred to ground stations where all the transmissions received from thousands of devices in the field are decoded...
March 2018
Zero gravity and the human heart
... Upon returning to Earth there is a reverse process whereby the CVS re-adapts to Earth’s gravitational forces The data obtained in a comprehensive examination of the cardiovascular system in zero-g are different from those obtained on Earth. Assessed...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... problem. The position of meteorite impacts on the other hand can be verified by overhead orbital imagery systems, so the data obtained from these quake sources can ultimately help scientists refine properties associated with Marsquakes. No matter...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... every 30 minutes as it searches for that brief moment when a tiny portion of a star’s light is temporarily blocked out. Data will be collected on stars in the southern hemisphere for the first year of mission operations, followed by a sweep of the...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... each passing year, due to tidal interaction with our planet. Data from LLRE shows that the distance is increasing by 3.82 +/- ...microwave background without inflated ideas. Do the Planck CMB data contain evidence of a cyclical cosmology? Dark energy ...
January 2020
Apollo girl - camaraderie and discrimination in the Apollo era
... obtained a reassignment. No longer a ‘girl’ After 12 years at Goddard, I became a programme manager in the Office of Space Tracking and Data Systems (OSTDS). Now in my 30s, I was no longer a ‘girl’, but I was the only female engineer in the division...
