March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
...are raising funds to launch commercial CubeSat constellations. Moore’s Law What precisely lies at the heart of this satellite revolution... each time with more sophisticated components (per Moore’s Law) and learn from the mistakes of the past deployment...
March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
... confirm) the wave. The first method, called inspiral, is calculated using post-Newtonian theory. It uses Newton’s laws, and step-by-step adds in different hypotheses to take into account general relativity. The merger method uses...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...type of enterprise entails. The only established international law that has widespread acceptance is the Outer Space .... These efforts include the McGill University Air and Space Law Institute ‘Global Space Governance Study’ that devotes a chapter...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
..., and at last, after decades of battling bureaucracies, changing laws, investing time and money and creativity, it has begun. ...is the idea that, while a specific framework of laws and restrictions is completely necessary to protect life in the...
