October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
...dust at the slightest touch. As well as being essential to future asteroid miners as well as planetary defence planners, practical insight from AIM into the fundamental processes driving asteroid cohesion could have much wider implications – offering...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... and an electric field instrument. The geomagnetic field models resulting from the Swarm mission enable new insights into the Earth’s interior. They further our understanding of atmospheric processes related to climate and weather, and...
October 2015
Growing space businesses in the UK: from incubation centres to public funding
... space industry3. There’s a strong track record of engineering achievements combined with entrepreneurial abilities and commercial insight in seeing them through to create world-leading space businesses. An intensive and wide-ranging study undertaken...
March 2016
Space for art
... understanding for those that might otherwise engage with science. Through ‘Space for Art’, I will provide insight into projects I’m working on, share current events and thoughts linking science and art, and introduce the...
June 2016
A new microgravity research facility for Central Texas and beyond
... of research such as biology, medicine as well as fundamental physics conducting experiments in microgravity. In example new insights about crystal formation were gained, which can be applied to the development of innovative medication or microchip...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... be followed quite easily. Therefore physicists not only had a system at their fingertips that could give insights into the ‘atomistic world’ of matter - seeing individual particles interacting, producing co-operative phenomena, phase transitions...
