August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... can be used for the benefit of all. Such optimism was fuelled in late January 2020 when the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) in London hosted large constellation operators, including Starlink, and representatives from the UK Space Agency, the...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
.... She aspires to be a neuroscientist examining the brains of astronauts who go on deep space missions. A fellow at the Royal Astronomical Society, she is an advocate for space sustainability and for STEM careers. She shares her knowledge and views...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... in Astrophysics, a PhD in satellite constellation design, and has been a fellow of both the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society for more than 25 years. Acknowledgement The author would like to acknowledge the assistance...
May 2017
Could Brexit blow a hole in UK’s space ambitions?
...A graduate in chemistry and pharmacology, Dr Leggett also holds a PhD in Chemistry and is Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society. Opinions presented in the article are the author’s own and do not reflect those...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... fact that Starlink’s satellites are creating ‘artefacts’ in astronomical observations. Technically, this has always been a possibility, ... a fellow of both the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society for more than 25 years.
06 December 2021
Astronomers find a galaxy with no dark matter
...describe the behavior of subatomic particles. However, in the past couple of years, astronomers are starting to find galaxies that buck the trend. In 2018, Pieter van Dokkum... published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
