June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
..., could be heard and interpreted by alien ‘ears’ aeons in the future. The discs are imbued with the potential, if not the promise, for culture contact. As Voyagers 1 and 2 swing away from the Sun at over 35,000 mph, they act as connective webs...
February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
... reusable rockets to suborbital planes, and even convertible cars orbiting the sun near Mars. However, for some companies with business models based on radical technology, the situation has become difficult in recent months; for example, companies...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... like NASA could come up with, Artemis stands for ‘Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence, and Electrodynamics of the Moon’s Interaction with the Sun’. NASA’s objective is to herald in a new era for space exploration and utilisation and, while...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... and radar discoveries from the early years included the rotation rate of the planet Mercury and the period of the Crab pulsar, a rotating neutron star. Before Arecibo, Mercury was thought to be tidally locked to the Sun, with orbital and rotational...
25 September 2015
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s Imhotep region: conditions change rapidly on comet’s surface
... that such extreme, rapid changes were not originally predicted by computer models as the comet approached perihelion (the point in its orbit when its closest to the sun). Whatever forces are at work on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – we must still find...
23 August 2016
NASA Makes Contact with STEREO-B Spacecraft
... unexpected. NASA resumed efforts to contact STEREO-B after it had moved further away from the sun and sun radio interference could no longer impede signals. The lines of communication to both STEREO spacecraft—Ahead in red and Behind in blue—are...
