June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
... would we call it ‘exploration? – and to cope with this the system requires resilience. While we do not yet have a greenhouse on another planet, we do have a long list of creative solutions to both big and small emergencies in space, from the...
March 2021
iPhone moment for the Earth observation industry
... signals from navigation satellites to better understand our weather (Spire, GeoOptics). We can also keep track of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGSat, Bluefield, MethaneSat), keep an eye on the energy efficiency of the buildings in which we live...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
..., however, are the levels of ozone which protect us all from damaging UV radiation and the abundance of other greenhouse gases, such as methane. While it is possible to measure the concentrations of these gases from sensors stationed on Earth, such...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
... as freons that have been implicated in the destruction of stratospheric ozone on Earth, but which are also good greenhouse gases. This mechanism, though, would require innumerable and continuing numbers of interplanetary flights because the CFCs...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... ground. By similar reasoning spacefaring organisations will have financial incentive to purchase provisions from Omaha Crater greenhouses and other industries. Facility leasing and provisioning can provide multibillion-dollar revenue streams for the...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... mainly in industrialized countries in the Northern hemisphere and absent in the Southern hemisphere or over oceans. GOSAT The Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) was launched in 2009 as the world’s first satellite to monitor CO2 and methane...
