August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
... on revenue return. Above right: Figure 2. Exoplanet yield as a function of telescope diameter (adapted from AURA, 2015). In astronomy, on-orbit assembly can enable the construction of telescopes too large to be fully built on Earth and launched into...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... brings about their end. Detailed modelling of binary stars is a major challenge which will require the best of astronomy, astrophysics, applied mathematics and computer science on many levels. Coupled with state of the art observational surveys...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... Brahe, Galileo and Newton, and another filled with Islamic astronomy artefacts, and so on. In the more contemporary section, you... matter they have dedicated their life to understanding. Astronomy and space science are certainly not exempt from this...
August 2020
Opportunities for young people in the space sector
... summer schools held around the world in fields such as astronomy, robotics, biomedical engineering and rocketry, offer a hands-on ...days under the supervision of experts, and the Space Astronomy Summer programme in Maryland, USA, where students can ...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
...Foundation sagas. This was Space for me! And so I grew up. I studied astronomy, space science and engineering at university and went on to a career in the...Lee has had a love affair with space and astronomy since his boyhood. During his 40-year career ...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... largest man-made object in space, but the implications are serious. Estimates of the sensitivity of the radio astronomy community’s flagship project, the Square Kilometre Array, suggest that it will have sufficient sensitivity to detect objects...
