August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... in surface waters of the Mediterranean. The grey-scale base map in the Mediterranean basin shows the relative surface plastic concentrations predicted by numerical modelling. Darker areas are predicted to have higher concentrations. The coloured...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
...as optical and thermal cameras, LIDAR, etc, to navigate relative to detected terrain features is needed. The IceMole during testing...had an accuracy of several kilometres and have selected a relatively safe area to land on. For the Enceladus lander we ...
October 2019
Asgardia’s calendar and its role in space industrialisation strategy
... forward with the immutability and constancy of the numerical series relative to each other. In all modern calendars, the opposite ...the week, and the variable is the shift of numerical series relative to each other — one day in a normal year and two...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... for governments The version 0.1 prototype of TruSat released on October 21 at www.TruSat.org is a modest, first step relative to TruSat’s full potential as a resource for preserving our spacefaring future. Achieving this potential will depend...
May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
... walls/windows, lighting, textures and colours, for example - and introduces novelty while remaining passive and relatively autonomous (Figure 5). Figure 5. Conceptual design for an Almaz space station utilising deployable surfaces and screens for...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... advance. We can do this by defining the information gained from a given observation, which then allows us to assess the relative merits of upcoming missions, set guidelines to optimise their design, and prioritise which planets to point them at once...
