August 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...
January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
... conduct evasive manoeuvres - and they threaten the long-term benefits of space activities. Interconnected satellite communications networks. Debris removal Today, there are about a million human-made objects in the 1 to 10 cm size-range orbiting our...
April 2025
Life in the Sun’s atmosphere - the looming threat of solar storms
...’. “It can cause entire satellite constellations to fail, grounding flights, silencing digital communications, and freezing financial networks.” He added that when addressing the threat of space weather it should be treated like any terrestrial risk...
06 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...
