...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...
... 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...
...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...
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 ...
... 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...
...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...