26 February 2018
A Sky Wonderful with Stars – 50 years of modern astronomy on Maunakea
... harsh winter weather” delayed its construction and even getting the telescope’s computer control system – “it was new technology at the time”, reminds the author – took “several years of additional effort”. Among its contributions to astronomy was...
July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
... their people about ‘the end of the world’? 3. The Applications Dilemma: could the new technology be used for military purposes? Could the technology created for the interception and destruction of an NEO be used, for example, to create components...
December 2014
Necessity is the mother of invention
... timescale. Creating the Iron Dome system meant overcoming a number of major challenges. We would need to develop a new technology for the interception of rockets by means of interceptor missiles while keeping the costs of each interception and the...
March 2015
Twinkle, twinkle satellite
...’s “War of the Satellites,” inspired in its dramatism by the Sputnik launch. Yet far beyond politics, any kind of new technology naturally inspires apprehension. Until we get used to it, that is. Today, the general public so used to satellite...
23 September 2024
Artificial Intelligence for Space
It is inevitable that every new technology or concept will, sooner or ...appears – in section 10.1 - to be a general commentary on the “rate of technological advancement and innovation in space”, but then deteriorates into a work of badly-written ...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
... real time through mobile devices and social media. In the case of Daesh, their sophisticated use of these new technologies has been used to deliberately communicate atrocities to a horrified and outraged global public. In particular, the continuing...
