July 2020
Inspiring the next generation into STEM
... 19 percent. Our data also show that engineering aspirations are profoundly gendered.” In a recent paper, Dr Julie Moote, Research Associate on the ASPIRES 3 project wrote: “a mere 11 percent of the UK engineering workforce are women, far behind the...
14 October 2016
Asgardia welcomes over 100,000 citizen applications in 48 hours and announces new million target
... Ashurbeyli, one of the Russian Federation's most distinguished scientists and founder of the Aerospace International Research Center (AIRC) in Vienna. In a separate event in Paris on 11 October 2016, he became chairman of UNESCO’s ‘Science of Space...
18 October 2017
Europe’s first all-electric telecom satellite breaks record
... on 2 June. ESA have been involved in a number of projects concerning the satellite through its Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) programme. ARTES offers varying degrees of support to projects with different levels of commercial...
11 April 2018
Revealing planet formation processes with SPHERE
... disc is alike. Installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), SPHERE or the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument is mainly tasked with detecting and studying new giant exoplanets orbiting nearby stars. However, the...
02 July 2018
Baby planet in dusty disc finally caught on camera
... data suggests that the planet’s atmosphere is cloudy. SPHERE or the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument is a powerful planet finder designed to take images directly of exoplanets – a method known as direct imaging. Its...
06 March 2019
Growing food from thin air to feed astronauts
... Pasi Vainikka, CEO, Solar Foods. Born from a NASA space programme, and further developed by the Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd and the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), last year, the company secured two...
