October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
... monitoring, mining, outback communication, finance, border control and the surf report. Australia needs its own polar orbiting satellites. A space agency serves several roles. It creates coherence across a complex sector by coordinating and...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
... a 13:30 mean local solar time (MLST) at the equator, and around five minutes behind NOAA’s Suomi-National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP). Whereas MetOp and future MetOp-SG satellites fly on a mid-morning orbit (09:30), this...
October 2017
Colouring our view of the oceans
... this information on a free and open basis in an integrated marine data stream incorporating data from its own polar-orbiting Metop satellites and geostationary Meteosat spacecraft, the joint European-US Jason satellite altimetry missions and...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
... the 1990s, and USGS opened the Landsat archive for free, unrestricted access in 2008. Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (SNPPS) satellite. The open data movement was not limited to the United States, and...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... their own invention and put themselves, not the public, at risk. Marie Curie exposed herself to radiation. Polar explorers developed and approved their own equipment, living and dying by their own decisions. US Navy Admiral...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... resonance propulsion, has an elliptical orbit and works as a shuttle that never stops. Fortunately, the experiments of the polar bases influenced the concept of the Martian base, leading to a base design in which not all tasks were...
