October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... satellite series [2016, 2019] in sun-synchronous orbits (SSO), according to state media used for “detecting the atmospheric and marine environment and space environment, as well as disaster control and other scientific experiments”. The Yunhai...
October 2025
Pioneering affordable and flexible access to near space
... satellite launcher using balloon technology. This work laid the technical foundations in high-altitude balloon systems, atmospheric modelling and payload integration. In response to emerging market demands and building on its earlier expertise, the...
October 2025
The law as a last line of defence when space debris hit home
... the expectation that the payload would burn up in the atmosphere within the next 25 years. However, not all of the... 2021. The pallet was expected to burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere after orbiting Earth for between two to four years but a 0.7...
23 April 2021
Mars rover instrument, MOXIE, extracts first oxygen from Red Planet
..., and putting it through a processing plant, making it into a large structure, or taking carbon dioxide – the bulk of the atmosphere – and converting it into oxygen,” she said. “This process allows us to convert these abundant materials into useable...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... comes a few years after Scott’s other sci-fi masterpiece, Alien. He develops, in Blade Runner, a similar neo-noir atmosphere, albeit this time set in a decaying city rather than on a spacecraft. This particular view of the future would...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
... is considered part of the global commons (which covers Earth’s unowned natural resources, such as the oceans, the atmosphere and space). Eighteen annexes to the Chicago Convention covering all aspects of aviation have been made by ICAO...
