May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
.... Windows, fused silica and borosilicate glass panes which have temperature sensitive elements and heaters, can be manually shuttered to avoid micrometeoroids and orbital debris. Rules and regulations Across the European Union (EU) directives need...
May 2018
Delivering farming solutions with satellite-powered data analytics
... cutting experiments (CCEs) are conducted throughout India to get an estimate of total agricultural production. This is a very manual and time intensive process. Smart sampling, using satellite-based crop clustering techniques can be used to reduce...
June 2018
We live on a planet!
... Earth’. The term Spaceship Earth was popularised by Buckminster Fuller who in 1968 wrote the book, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. One of the leading ideas in his book is that Earth is a spaceship, with the Sun...
June 2018
Striding through space
... & Islands of Scotland, he has also evaluated technology projects for the UK government. His book the Haynes Astronaut Manual was published in 2017, he has written frequently for newspapers and magazines about spaceflight programs and personalities...
August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
... the status of each object with a high degree of confidence. Traditional approaches to this problem revolve around manual analysis of target signature variations (such as light-curves). However, this capability requires automation to scale up to the...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
... transmission system. Integrating this technology could provide a means to augment astronauts during planetary EVAs, easing difficult manual lifting and manipulation tasks. The way forward The ability for wearable systems to integrate realtime data...
