17 July 2017
New company seeks to shake-up satellite launch industry
... Phillip Spector (formerly of Intelsat), the University of Southern California, Stanford University and Y Combinator Continuity also participated. Y Combinator is a Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator whose notable alumni include Airbnb, Stripe...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
... buildings can also limit their intelligence effectiveness. Strategic depth The strategic geography of the Middle East combines with the strategic attributes of spacepower to create an ideal region for the use and application of satellites. These...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... more advanced a civilisation is, the easier it will be to see, unless it is deliberately hiding A slightly more complicated scenario (Case 2) combines data from two missions, where one only measures the more primitive biosignature, and the other...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...cradle forever”. Mother Earth, however, makes leaving hard! A combination of high total mass and density results in high surface gravity...Space Elevator concept. The green line marks the combined potential of gravity and centrifugal force balancing at ...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
...The Gaia 3U satellite architecture. Gaia 3U with Gecko imager Combining the heritage of the ISIS 3U CubeSat and the successful...pointing. The Gecko imager. Gaia 6U with Chameleon imager Combining the heritage of the ISIS 6U CubeSat and the development ...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
.... The workflow of the analogues includes circular design iterations and testing, prototyping and user experience design. Combining the outcomes of these studies leads to more complete understanding of habitat designs. However, the analogues are still...
