October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
... and six peripheral windows that offer such amazing views of the Earth. The Challenge Star quilt pattern reflects the ‘journey’ of Karen Nyberg, and others, reaching for the stars in their own ways throughout their whole lives and...
November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
..., using ground-based telescopes to detect the tiny wobbles a planet induces in its host star’s motion. The challenge here is filtering out the ‘noise’ from the star itself, but progress is being made. The second approach takes us into space, where...
21 November 2018
Jezero Crater chosen as landing site for Mars 2020 mission
... value of sites such as Jezero Crater, and a previous mission contemplated going there, but the challenges with safely landing were considered prohibitive,” said Ken Farley, project scientist for Mars 2020 at NASA’s ...
28 April 2020
This year's IAC will be hosted in a virtual format due to Covid-19
...those dates in your calendar and stay tuned for additional details on the programme and logistics for the event in the upcoming weeks. Despite the challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the IAF is confident that humanity can emerge from this crisis...
July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... transition that occurs as a vehicle passes through Mach 1, the speed of sound, where there is a change in the fundamental behaviour of the air moving past the craft. Some of the challenges of hypersonic flight are connected to high temperatures and...
July 2014
Space technology transfer portals and the chance progress of innovation
...do it. Identifying where that knowledge can be exploited in other sectors and making it available to the right people is the challenge, particularly when the target sectors and individuals within them are not necessarily aware of, nor looking out for...
