June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... of an attempt to create an artificial ionosphere above the Earth, to improve military communications. The enormous Starfish Prime nuclear explosion over Hawaii (July 1962), so bright that people could read the newspaper outside at night by its light...
21 February 2018
Oldest known superluminous supernova discovered
... type of supernova that ended its life in a huge cosmic explosion when the Universe was only a quarter of its current age....the nature of SLSN.” Clues as to the temperature of the explosion and the amount of metal produced when the star exploded – two...
24 July 2020
A first of its kind white dwarf merger with a dense compact object discovered by students
... of radioactive nickel that was created in the explosion. Considering the unusually rich abundance of this isotope... white dwarf with either a neutron star or a black hole. “The explosion is likely to be the result of a merger between a white dwarf (...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
..., satellites, rocket engines and manned spacecraft. This explosion of innovation saw an incredible growth in space activity...these two challenges had been met, the innovative technological explosion linked to mankind’s conquest of space was over. The...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
...in New Zealand are pouring hundreds of millions of into developing standalone dedicated CubeSat and Small Sat launches. Explosive growth We believe that the success of a majority of the would-be dedicated CubeSat vehicles will usher in a period where...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
...War with its associated post-war baby boom and the explosion of technological innovation. The effect was to render his...our solar system. Thus the basis is in place for an explosion in activity that can transform the national and global economy for ...
