April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
Since the beginning of the Space Age, some 35 nations have been involved ... array of environmental issues - it is a puzzle that in many cases the space and meteorological agencies around the world that collect satellite data essential to address these...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... that there have been over 650 break-up, explosion, collision, or anomalous events in space since the start of the space age (1957) resulting in fragmentation. The agency’s Space Environment Report 2024 states that of the 35,000 objects tracked...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
...been a part of the night sky since the dawn of the Space Age in 1957, and a good number of spacecraft can be observed ...Typical smallsats in a mega constellation. The European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office estimates there are currently some 22,000...
June 2018
Striding through space
... subject of one of the most famous images of the Space Age but his time as an astronaut encompassed much more than ... the photos and on TV he is distinguishable by a plain white space suit, whereas McCandless had a red stripe on each limb, like Apollo...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
Since the dawn of the Space Age, satellite communications ground systems have changed..., cost alone presents a reasonable argument for optimised efficiency in today’s space communication models. However, the ground infrastructure to handle the load of...
June 2022
Space activities and space debris - finding an ethical balance
... view of the author, is rapidly developing into both technical and ethical challenges. Since the beginning of the Space Age, heralded by Sputnik 1 reaching low Earth orbit (LEO) in 1957, more than 6,000 successful launches have led...
