August 2016
Long-term spaceflight and microbiological safety issues
... talks, coughs, exerts themselves physically, or even simply breathes, a significant number of microbes are emitted into the environment. It is also impossible to fully sterilize all cargo and transport ships, including the cargo they deliver, even...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... entry barrier for customers if they are not supported. One of the aims of Mymicrogravity is to transform the microgravity environment into a commodity that all laboratories would have access to and introduce microgravity to researchers that have not...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... and exchanges in the Jupiter system that are responsible for the changes in surface, ionospheric and exospheric environments at Ganymede, Europa and Callisto from short-term to geological time scales. Focused studies of Jupiter’s atmosphere and...
January 2021
Safeguarding space - lessons from decommissioning in the energy industry
...more than 30,000 spacecraft. Could the legacy of terrestrial energy decommissioning be transferred in some way to the space environment? Indeed, SpaceX is not alone in contemplating the use of large numbers of small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO...
September 2025
AI cybersecurity - challenges in space
...(ISAM) and debris removal. These systems allow for precise relative navigation and control in dynamic, uncooperative environments where human-in-the-loop control is impractical due to signal delay or operational complexity. AI tools are also employed...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
... SSA, space protection, space traffic management and the long-term sustainability and security of the space environment. These space activities have mission-related interdependencies (such as orbital safety of operations) and common underlying space...
