November 2017
Advancing maritime intelligence with real-time satellite AIS
.... Authorities need to be able to monitor vessel activity in and around these ecologically sensitive areas to help preserve the marine environment. With real-time data at their fingertips, authorities can identify vessels with pre-defined courses...
April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
... right back to him. Darwin noted the many adaptations that marine iguanas have to the life aquatic: flattened tails to help... on Darwin. Yet it was not the uniqueness of the marine iguanas that most aroused Darwin’s curiosity, but their similarity to...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... with Mercury. His work contributed to the success of NASA’s Mariner 10 mission, the first mission ever to observe the innermost planet... the planet. One of the most unexpected discoveries by Mariner 10 was that Mercury has a global magnetic field like...
November 2017
Roving the red planet
... greatly aided by the extensive orbital remote sensing of the planet provided by a series of spacecraft dating back to the Mariner 9 mission which began its orbital reconnaissance of Mars in 1971. But ground level exploration of the planet is a more...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... imaginative logo designer! The call for a Space Force envisions a combat force akin to the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force. These fighting troops could be used defensively to protect objects, facilities and property in space...
October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... [2016, 2019] in sun-synchronous orbits (SSO), according to state media used for “detecting the atmospheric and marine environment and space environment, as well as disaster control and other scientific experiments”. The Yunhai series is assessed...
