July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
... the system of planetary defence will be $1-2 billion. This could be covered by taking one thousandth of the world’s combined military budgets. Miscellaneous problems A situation could arise where, even if the system were in place, we may not be ...
March 2015
Satellite technology in newsgathering and disaster coverage
... technologies such as cellular bonding, which allows a user to combine multiple 3G and 4G wireless cards into a single unit and...We are seeing the emergence of mesh technologies, combinations of satellite and aeronautical platforms designed to bridge ...
March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
...are carefully tailored to align with the overall risk management approach of the satellite owner. Insurers combine complex technical understanding with contract analysis, risk evaluation, insurance modelling and claim negotiation. It is a challenging...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... Global Satellite Map on Precipitation (GSMaP) every hour by combining data from more than 13 satellites, including the GPM core...world. GSMaP can also be used to predict floods when combined with river basin terrain models. GSMaP data are calibrated ...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
...It was exactly the kind of planet and star combination that we had hoped Kepler would find, but which... that an eclipsing binary or a star with a giant transiting planet could combine with the foreground star’s light to cause a transit-like feature. He...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
...and scientific studies. Four spacecraft in one A combination of visual and thermal imagers will survey the ...asteroid science at a fundamental level. In recent years the combination of in-situ missions, ground-based observations, meteorite analysis and...
