February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
Earth’s annual journey around the Sun represents a perilous cosmic voyage and for thousands of years humans have remained blissfully ignorant of the dangers of asteroids and comets, coronal ...
10 October 2018
The Ringed Planet: Cassini’s voyage of discovery at Saturn
In a competition for ‘most iconic planet’, some might choose Mars because it has inspired so much high-profile science fiction, while others might choose Jupiter for its iconic Great Red Spot. But if we consider ‘iconic’ in terms of graphic ...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
...and computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, do just that. Rather than sending out a message, as Voyager Records do, scientists at the UC Berkeley are listening in. Both are examples of how humans install their own cultural...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
... km away. At this scale, the farthest human-made object, the Voyager 1 probe, would be at a distance of about 141 metres from ... per year compared to the 3.6 metres per year of the Voyager probe - a 1400-fold increase in velocity. Gram-sized Andromeda...
November 2017
Advancing maritime intelligence with real-time satellite AIS
...). The Convention requires ships of 300 gross tonnage and upwards engaged on international voyages, cargo ships of 500 gross tonnage and upwards not engaged on international voyages, and all passenger ships irrespective of size to be fitted with AIS...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
...century after the Apollo centenary we could imagine a voyage into the asteroid belt, perhaps overseeing the artificial ... that space travellers had thus far not been. A human voyage to Jupiter and its remarkable moons, to Saturn’s moon Titan...
