June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... data collected in the mission will be used in a number of applications such as geodesy and gravimetry orbit determinations, Earth monitoring, Very Long Baseline Interferometry and global positioning. However, the world’s most expensive clock - the...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
...human rights obligations terrestrially, such as the use of remote sensing and Earth observation satellites for monitoring humanitarian developments in Burma. Secondly, the extension of terrestrial human rights into space, as a means of regulating and...
June 2021
The next ‘unthinkable’ – global disruption from a solar storm
...and he is also adjunct professor at Luxembourg University and, in the past, a freelance contributor for the Geopolitical Monitor. He holds a Masters degree in Economics & Finance and Bachelor’s degree in Management from Luxembourg University. He also...
July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
...: to confirm that a video feed routed from a camera on the Space Shuttle – docked to the ISS – would appear on a monitor on the new ISS robotics workstation. Vital to every robotics assembly mission to come, this simple step had...
January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
... of our planet become even more valuable. In the effort to fight global warming, satellites have become critical in monitoring human activities and developing the appropriate responses. While the use of Earth orbits provides numerous benefits...
January 2023
The effects of spaceflight on the female body
... spaceflight is associated with the restructuring of a whole range of processes in the body’s physiological systems which have been monitored and analysed for many years. However, specific changes in the female body under space conditions have...
