October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
...21st century space exploration has left a definable mark on our Earthly landscape. Some of it is well known: think of the... Singh, offers a unique look at the physical footprints of Earth’s launch sites, the architecture that tells its own story of...
October 2024
Off-Earth risks to the human skeleton
... a consequence of the redistribution of body fluids in the head. The BMC may decrease further in the early return to Earth, as the adaptive bone remodelling mechanism responds to the ‘returning’ mechanical load on the skeleton. Space missions lasting...
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 ...
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...
