June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... Telescope to do some of the first SETI measurements in 1960, created a thought experiment that playfully imagines how many ET civilizations there might be with whom we might communicate. It helps narrow the ‘maybes’ that SETI astronomers tangle with...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
...Department of Industry, Innovation and Science is responsible for civil space issues and is the central point of contact ... Australian space industry. Such growth implies not just additional civil capability, but also access for defence purposes to a...
March 2015
Space weather: the public & policy
... of these technologies include the power grid, civil aviation and many satellite applications. The threat posed...the loss of electric power. Expert concerns about impacts on civil aviation and GNSS occasionally got some attention but interest quickly...
June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
... ton. In 2013, the DHL parcel service tested a drone for delivering medicine. Europe sees the emergence of civil applications of Unmanned Aircraft (UA) or Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) as a source of economic growth and jobs. In March 2015...
January 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... for Transport (DfT) and CAA legal experts classify spaceplanes as ‘aircraft’, meaning that the existing body of civil aviation safety regulation would apply to spaceplanes. But at this stage of their development commercial spaceplanes cannot comply...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
...Intelligence (SETI) has always tacitly assumed that any civilization that it might detect would be far beyond our ...star may not be so far outside our grasp, and thus any civilization we detect might not be so far beyond us. The information content ...
