October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
...for Envisat data. So far there are about 6500 Envisat User projects. Earth Explorer Missions The Earth Explorers are research missions designed to address key scientific challenges identified by the science community, while demonstrating breakthrough...
March 2016
Captivating hearts and minds
... and more potential for reaching out to the general public and engaging them with the space exploration mission brand. 1 Marcu, S.D., & Laird, R. J. M. (2015). Rosetta and Philae: Captivating the Hearts and Minds of a Global Audience, 66th...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... new awareness of the environmental issues for Earth from the late 1960s, stemming from the Apollo exploration missions. Seeing Earth from the Moon in the Apollo 11 photos was a powerful message and Apollo 8’s Bill Anders...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... much further out, so perhaps Ceres is a Kuiper belt object. Two missions currently under development will also address small body migration concepts. JAXA’s Martian Moons Exploration mission (MMX) will go to the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
...constellations, and the fourth phase of the China Lunar Exploration Program. Overall, despite the 2020s having begun with... year, and future Chang’e missions, deep space exploration missions and even human lunar missions planned for later in the decade...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
... and space segments and between space assets, and effectively enhance communications networks for deep space exploration missions. Space imagery processing that once took humans hours, days or weeks to review and analyse can be automated...
