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...
March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
... and yield estimates could be obtained from satellite imagery. However, the methods for environmental monitoring improved relatively slowly over the next four decades as the acquisition and processing of EO data remained a rather niche government...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
... enormity of these projects and others will increase the number of opportunities for commercial companies, even if for relatively simpler and smaller contributions compared with the state-owned giants. Recent actions by the Central Government...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... carbon and oxygen into intergalactic space and magnetising the intergalactic medium. SOFIA results from these relatively nearby galaxies are helping astronomers piece together a coherent picture of how the magnetic fields amplified by turbulent...
