October 2024
Revolutionising space medicine and global health through virtual and augmented reality
... complex scenarios, collaborate and innovate in ways previously unimaginable. Space agencies, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), are already applying Metaverse technologies for...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
... examples is a collision with Europe’s Sentinel-1A radar satellite that occurred in August 2016. As the European Space Agency (ESA) reported, a tiny piece of space debris hit its solar panels, causing a slight decrease in power and a change in the...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
..., Very Long Baseline Interferometry and global positioning. However, the world’s most expensive clock - the European Space Agency is investing US$50 million in this experiment - will benefit the physics community as it will also be used to test the...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... there are many other lesser known projects like the UAE’s Mars 2117 project, and the European Space Agency’s Moon village idea. There are new business opportunities, from Luxembourg’s efforts on asteroid mining to Japanese start...
January 2023
LUNAR OASIS – architectural visions for an integrated lunar habitat
... and habitation design, as well as habitability and space psychology, was provided by an extended team of experts from space architecture and engineering, space companies and the European Space Agency. The goal was to experience how designing for...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
.... In many parts of the world, technology that was originally intended for use in space is now prevalent in other industries. For example, the European Space Agency (ESA) developed suits with embedded biomedical sensors to study how the human body...
