May 2022
Redefining the space professional – disruptions in the space sector workforce
... Despite the constancy of the need to provide a skilled workforce, the space industry has encountered a number of major disruptions. Disruption 1: remote working Despite the constancy of the need to provide a skilled workforce, the space industry has...
26 September 2016
A potentially disrupting satellite system around the LMC has been observed for the first time by astronomers
...found that the LMC could potentially have its own disrupting satellite galaxy known as SMASH 1. With the ...the system is highly elliptical, it is thought to be undergoing tidal disruption, meaning that the stars are being pulled away from the system ...
November 2016
Turning the Solar System into our backyard
... venture capital investments across the space sector in 2015 alone have exceeded the previous 15 years combined. A disruptive change is happening right now and at an ever quickening pace. So far a majority of these activities are occurring on the...
April 2019
On-board propulsion set to drive the smallsat revolution
...of scale that will drive growth and innovation, and further disrupt the space sector. A prototype thruster firing during tests in...Mars. And with the burgeoning interest in asteroid mining, a disruption in the mining sector may well be on the horizon, ...
27 September 2019
TESS sees its first rare star-shredding event
... in Pasadena, California and lead author of a paper recently submitted to The Astrophysical Journal. "Because we identified the tidal disruption quickly with the ground-based All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN), we were able to trigger...
12 October 2020
Rarely detected star shredding event caught in unprecedented detail
... of a star in this way is referred to as a tidal disruption event (TDE) and it occurs when thin streams of material from the...a ‘Rosetta stone’ for interpreting future observations of tidal disruption events, say the team. At the very least, it...
