May 2019
Space for Art – Astronauts and artists
... his art studies and created his first artwork in space – coloured pencil drawings of an orbital sunrise and ...from the threads of his suit patch. A large part of the space community that is generally thought of as ‘technical only’ is beautifully ...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
...30 January 2020. My first Great Observatory was the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). I was a team member on the ... as much as possible. An artist’s concept depicting the Spitzer Space Telescope in space much as it would appear at the end of its mission...
September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
... is fighting for their life and inviting them to contribute their artwork to a suit that is going to be worn by an astronaut in space! Gordon Andrews (ISS Programme Comms), Nicole Stott (Artist/ Astronaut), Ian Cion (MD Anderson Cancer Center Arts...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... police’ exist with zero tolerance for the unauthorised possession of a controlled space resource The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is a space museum that displays space artefacts, many of which are on loan from NASA. Following the resignation...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
...are the implementations. As the commercial community realises and upgrades components or modules in use by state-of-the-art space systems, those same upgraded components will require less effort to integrate than would an utterly proprietary solution...
May 2021
Forecasting space-weather effects on Earth
...these changes can trigger a sudden explosion of electromagnetic energy, called a solar flare, which releases radiation into space. Sometimes, this release is accompanied by an ejection of plasma (hot clouds of ionised gas) from its surface. These are...
