22 January 2020
2.2 billion year old impact crater is confirmed as Earth's oldest
...the potential effects that a Yarrabubba-sized impact may have had on climactic conditions. If the meteorite hit Earth when it was covered by an ice sheet between 2 to 5 kilometres thick, up to half a trillion tonnes of water vapour, a greenhouse gas...
11 October 2021
Disrupting Earth-bound asteroids with nukes is “very effective”, new study says
... Armageddon; a disaster movie that centres around a crew of oil drillers sent to space to stop a meteor hurtling toward earth by blowing it up with a nuclear bomb. While the film is fictional, using a nuclear bomb to disrupt an asteroid is not as far...
May 2019
Unlocking the full potential of Earth observation
...higher-resolution data, but they wouldn’t be able to offload it all in this narrow window. To make the most of Earth observation satellites, there needs to be a high-speed data connection in space. Flight Engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor installs the...
09 September 2020
China's reusable spacecraft returns to Earth, deploys unknown object before deorbiting
The Chinese reusable experimental spaceship has successfully returned to Earth having spent two days in low-Earth orbit (LEO), Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday. The reusable spaceship was launched last week on a ...
June 2015
Bringing technology down to earth
... example of how Umbilical Design is using its knowledge of space design to develop new products and solutions for earth application with the aim to improve living and working conditions for people in extreme situations or environments is Thunderwear...
March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
...the era of the Sentinel-2 twin constellation spacecraft designed to acquire a wealth of geodata to help safeguard the ‘health’ of Earth. Further major advances were limited by the paucity of data, the relative lack of processing power & data handling...
