October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... asteroid science at a fundamental level. In recent years the combination of in-situ missions, ground-based observations, meteorite analysis and software modelling has revealed the striking variety of asteroids in terms of size, shape and constituent...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... more and more evidence of the various types of cosmic hazards that lurk in outer space. As recently as 2013, a meteorite crashed over a major Russian town, injured 1100 people and damaged 4000 buildings. In the 1980s a huge...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
The main task of international space law since its inception has been to ensure free, unimpeded and non-discriminatory access of mankind into space in order to maintain peace, which substantiated the leading role of sovereign states in the ...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... - in January, Planetary Resources unveiled the first 3D printed object made from asteroid metals sourced from meteorites. The exercise proved that metals on asteroids could be processed and printed into anything, a critically important technological...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
.... In addition, MASTER III telescopes will help discover potentially dangerous asteroids about the size of the Chelyabinsk meteorite between five and seven days before they get to Earth. Location, location Given the success of the...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... is true. In 1996, there were claims that evidence of ancient life, in the form of microfossils, had been found in a meteorite known to have come from Mars. The story was considered interesting, but in no way disturbing. The public...
