February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
.... Some highlighted the benefits of keeping Hubble going by pointing to the multiple issues with the forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Many opined that it was questionable whether it will ever get off the ground...
July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
... full potential has yet to be unveiled. Acknowledgement The authors wish to acknowledge the additional contributions of Alan Perera-Webb and Richard Osborne, of Commercial Space Technologies Ltd, and Simon Gwozdz, of Equatorial Space Systems Pte Ltd...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... missions. The established space research community in Scotland has been involved with projects such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ESA’s GAIA, ExoMars, BepiColombo and Sentinel missions. Its extensive activities have been...
January 2023
Is human space exploration DOOMED?
... contract will be picked up by other metagalaxies and go through the process of expansion and contraction. NASA James Webb Space Telescope image of Stephan s Quintet giving astronomers a ringside seat to galactic mergers and interactions. In the last...
April 2026
An alternative model for pulsars and spiral galaxies
..., which are attributed to spiral density waves in the disk of the galaxy. Although results from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may force a revision, spiral galaxies are theorised to result from gravitational accretion processes...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
..., VLT, Keck) because they are too faint. This limitation will hopefully be bypassed when the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) is deployed in October 2018. As the mission gets underway, a large wealth of infrared spectroscopic data...
