October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
..., but mission selection is a competitive process. In the meantime, assets on Earth and in orbit (like the James Webb Space Telescope) will continue to observe Saturn to build on Cassini’s legacy of discoveries, while keeping a watchful eye on the...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... drag and gravity to take effect. The Hubble Space Telescope - cultural as well as scientific icon. Harvest ... pointing to the multiple issues with the forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Many opined that it was questionable whether...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... be robotically assembled in a tile-like fashion. Even space telescopes could be designed for robotic assembly. One of NASA’s candidate telescope designs to succeed the James Webb Space Telescope, LUVOIR (Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor), would...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... all the way back to the Apollo lunar missions. The established space research community in Scotland has been involved with projects such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ESA’s GAIA, ExoMars, BepiColombo and Sentinel missions. Its extensive...
