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...
October 2023
Using drones to test phased array antennas
... selected from the candidates in step 2. 4. Locate the UAVs relative to the identified beam centres. 5. Slightly change the steering angle...algorithm for certain time intervals. 7. Locate the UAVs relative to the estimated beam centre. 8. Repeat the ...
April 2024
Rotation in the Universe
... we do. Taking our own galaxy, the Milky Way, as a specific example, it would seem reasonable to ask which large, relatively adjacent object is our counterpart if this tidal mechanism is the physical cause of our galaxy’s rotation. At first sight...
