June 2019
Space industry prime directive
... process before taking delivery. Today, NASA exercises ‘insight’, where it takes a high-level view and then... actually had more visibility of what was going on by exercising an ‘insight’ role than we ever did exercising an ‘oversight’ role. Would you...
November 2019
Space kaleidoscope - towards a genuine multi-messenger exploration
... can provide complementary information that is fundamental to understanding the workings of the Universe. This cosmic choir promises insight that can stretch as far as providing evidence for the presence of dark matter, and perhaps even its...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... of the howardite-eucrite-diogenite (HED) family of meteorites recovered on Earth. In fact, these missions have given us great insight into the formation processes of terrestrial samples. We now know that the Kuiper Belt is 20 times as wide and...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
...transportation between LEO and Earth’s surface. NASA’s Mars InSight spacecraft in an assembly clean room at Lockheed Martin...shield (brown disc) form a protective enclosure around the stowed InSight lander. This is one example of a rigid alternative to...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... crisis. Several companies (such as Descartes Labs, Mapbox, Orbital Insight, SpaceKnow and Ursa) are seeing a growing interest from customers... and AI/machine learning to extract high value insights, not least into the global pandemic itself....
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
.... However, he builds on this bluewater thinking with insights gleaned from continental seapowers. In the coastal model, naval...seapower strategy from island and continental powers to offer insights as to how humanity may confront the challenges and...
