June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... 80 million trees. If this had impacted a metropolitan area, the blast zone would have been the size of London, Paris, or Washington, DC. To date, we have identified the trajectories of less than one percent of asteroids, or about 10,000 that...
January 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... - and they thought this would be an ideal site.’ Brancaster was also relatively near Hatfield, Stevenage, and London, all important centres at the time in the British space industry, and yet it offered enough remote land...
February 2016
Space – Overcoming Our Limitations
..., because life exists on Earth. And it’s only a matter of time until visiting friends on Mars is as easy as visiting them in London. Ray Bradbury wrote in The Martian Chronicles: ‘The Men of Earth came to Mars. They came because they...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... of ions similar to the Carrington event were to occur the results could be very bad indeed. An assessment by Lloyd’s of London into the likely impacts of another Carrington-style event estimated the potential adverse economic impacts to be in the...
July 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... data sampling in space and time, distinguishing between the effects of different sources and strengths of magnetism. Lloyds of London analysed what the economic impacts might be of a major CME event hitting Earth and estimated a devastating negative...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... is to reduce the cost of putting satellites into orbit.” Reports from other world capitals, including Washington and London, responded to the ground-breaking 104 satellite mission success by suggesting India had emerged as a key player in the...
