May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... has been expanding, swelling like a giant balloon. Everything is moving further away from everything else - the space between galaxies is stretching, increasing year on year. Combined with the finite speed of light this wonderfully, serendipitously...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
..., generating excitement about all the amazing things happening in space that are benefitting us all right here on Earth. ...Mars we will be wearing space suits. As we’ve seen, space suits designed for use in space have inspired space suit art, but they...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... indeed need artificial machines to do our thinking and speaking”, is considered a positive outcome by most technology gurus today. Space exploration now – a futuristic vision of mining asteroids and the Moon for water, minerals and precious metals...
August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
...used as a new starting point to detect and characterise space objects using transfer learning. The idea of transfer learning... process and generate ever more powerful models. The Space Fence space surveillance system built by Lockheed Martin for the US...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... on display. I asked the station Director if I could do something with the visitor centre, known locally as the Canberra Space Centre (CSC). He said, “Yes, do anything you want, as long it doesn’t cost anything.” I accepted the challenge. Channelling...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... you much about it, and education is manifestly one of the central functions of any museum. It is suggested, therefore, that a space museum should seek to document its exhibits in orbit by sending small inspector satellites to image them. The video...
