July 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... ruin, on perhaps a planetary scale. After decades of urging, the United Nations has created an International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) and even a Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG) - pronounced ‘same page’. We even have missions...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... are laid worldwide to connect continents and to provide broadband access. The three main exceptions are local Wi-Fi networks, mobile broadband and satellite communications. In all three cases, internet connections are supplied over a small region...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... to dominate access to (overly) expensive college and graduate school education, and beyond to privileged internships and important networking contacts. These are the enablers that power upward mobility - leaving those without such access behind...
05 October 2015
Facebook, Eutelsat to beam Internet from space to Africa
... sub-Saharan Africa, Facebook chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote Monday in a post on the social network. “To connect people living in remote regions, traditional connectivity infrastructure is often difficult and inefficient, so we need to invent...
14 June 2016
Astronomers discover a giant planet orbiting two suns
... Space Flight Center and San Diego State University, however it was members of the "KELT Follow-Up Network,” a crowdsourcing initiative set up by Joshua Pepper, an assistant professor of physics at Lehigh University, to gather observations worldwide...
28 June 2021
Scottish-based AstroAgency nominated for two ‘Arthurs’
... Dallas Campbell and Dr Suzie Imber, was established by AstroAgency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to encourage informal networking and knowledge sharing among the world-wide space community. The sessions are held on video-conferencing...
