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...
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...
