March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
...perform detailed characterisation as well as a sample return. The third mission, the Near Earth Asteroid Scout CubeSat is currently in development as part of NASA’s human exploration programme. It would reach a 10 m asteroid in the 2022 timeframe for...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... of astrobiology research: searching for terrestrial or alien life in the stratosphere, possibly even in space using CubeSats. Ultimately, I hope to be able to answer some of the intriguing questions that introduced me into astrobiology as a teenager...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
... they do bring in ideas, innovations and technologies that will allow outward leverage. A good example areis the Cubesat technologies that allow earlier and cheaper participation in the use and exploration of space, and create more...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... internet of things is quickly becoming the internet of places as well. New, innovative, and disruptive technologies such as cubesats, satellite constellations, and rapid advances in computing and networking are altering the space domain and putting...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... to as the ‘first space war’. Existing international legal regimes are not designed to cope with a rising number of cubesats flying in loose formation some 500 km above Earth - a more institutional form of space traffic management might now...
May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
... activities in space, the potential of our cluttering up Earth orbit with space junk, or the advent of cubesats, megasatellite constellations, hypersonic transport, stratospheric and celestial body pollution or robotic freighters - and many other...
