June 2018
Publish or perish: the astronomer’s dilemma
... grants and observation time. Sexy topics, or the ‘fashion of the day’, are often favoured over important basic ...in quantified terms. Much more emphasis is needed on old fashioned qualitative evaluation by expert committees - and funding based on it....
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
.... Protocols and systems Regulations, if not implemented thoughtfully, can be severely constraining when rolled out in mechanical fashion and levied like taxes on our cyber infrastructure As we witness several satellite companies begin to deploy their...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
... today for these satellite operators to leverage existing infrastructure to support their operations in a multi-mission fashion. By relying on a trusted ground segment service provider, satellite operators are able to focus on what differentiates...
October 2020
Learning from alternative universes
...Crunch option. If we were to imagine an alternative universe with a negative cosmological constant, instead of expanding in an accelerated fashion the expansion would be decelerated. So much so that at some point it would start to contract faster and...
July 2014
Achilles’ heel
... ‘junk’ from orbit. However, these technologies in themselves pose a risk to active satellites if deployed in an aggressive fashion. Deliberate kinetic threats in the space domain are limited to a small number of states. In 2007, China successfully...
December 2014
A door closes
... the state and society. Both sides viewed global events through the prism of their rivalry and fashioned their foreign policies accordingly. The two superpowers defined the international system and bore ultimate responsibility...
