March 2015
Satellite technology in newsgathering and disaster coverage
... video, especially in areas with advanced infrastructure. And here we come to the main Achilles heel of satellite technology. Japan’s tsunami made the media’s job tougher One would think that satellites would be extremely well positioned...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... migration events and this region is so interesting to scientists that multiple teams in Europe, the United States and Japan are currently working on the development of concepts to explore that region. NASA recently selected a mission concept under...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... global economy has expanded to make this prediction a reality. Soon the economies of China, India, Indonesia and Japan - plus the smaller countries of Singapore, Taiwan, Republic of Korea, Thailand, etc - will outstrip those of the US and...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
... been something that only less than a dozen or so powerful countries – the United States, Russia, China, India, Japan, France and several others – have been able to use. With the dissemination of high-resolution Earth observation...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
..., known as Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout-2 (Mascot-2) is under study by DLR. Mascot-1 is already in flight, carried on Japan’s Hayabusa-2 mission, launched on 3 December 2014 to land on its target asteroid during 2018. In addition to the systems and...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... the inclination of the orbitwould enlarge the area of Earth covered to include the whole of China, the US and Japan, as well as most of Europe. China’s free-flying telescope could also be serviced by the ISS if needed. International Space...
