11 August 2017
Satellite launch demand to grow tenfold in next 20 years
Orbital Access Limited (OAL), is a UK based launch systems and aerospace services business, and its latest small sat market forecast for the period 2017 to 2036 identifies mega-constellations such as OneWeb, SpaceX and Planet Labs as the largest ...
January 2020
Discipline - a formula for success in the Earth observation market EO sector
...taken from the first full-colour video of Earth from space by Earth-i’s VividX2 satellite, which included images of moving...at the forefront. This is the formula for success in Earth observation data, and for NewSpace in general. It’s straightforward, ...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
...Network MASTER Global Robotic Network for Monitoring Outer and Near-Earth space was created and is being developed at Lomonosov ... meteorite between five and seven days before they get to Earth. Location, location Given the success of the MASTER II ...
08 September 2016
Close encounters of the asteroid kind: 2016 RB1 passes remarkably close to Earth
... international space community for some time, as many such asteroids are discovered quite late in their approach to Earth. A number of projects aimed at developing a viable planetary defence strategy have been suggested and implemented, including the...
01 July 2020
How Earth’s protective magnetic bubble can ‘flap’ over the Moon
...as it orbits the planet. During the time the Moon spends behind Earth – in the full Moon phase – it is inside the magnetosphere ... effects of one high-speed shock wave that barrelled towards Earth, travelling at 1.7 million miles per hour. The shock ...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... star formation regions (cold partially ionised plasmas), the interstellar medium (very tenuous hot plasma), etc. On Earth we have atmospheric lightning (short duration plasma channels), the ionosphere (ionised by radiation from the Sun), discharges...
