September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
...published on the subject since the early days of the Space Age. However, it is always easier to publish an engineering... Spaceport Cornwall. Meanwhile, SES has established a separate entity, Space Engine Systems USA, to obtain approval for use of a ...
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...
24 September 2025
Cybersecurity, cosmic weather and Europa’s secrets
... is not the enemy of innovation but a necessary foundation for the commercial space age. Legal specialists Molly Doyle and Lauren Napier examine what happens when space debris falls back to Earth, using a recent real-life case...
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...
