November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
... foundation of a space-based economy, moving resources, shielding Earth orbiting satellites and perhaps collecting and beaming power ... of a space-based economy, moving resources, shielding Earth orbiting satellites and perhaps collecting and beaming ...
13 July 2015
ISS Conference: 2024 plans, LEO development & how CASIS manages risk aversion
... with the Boy Scouts of America, we’re also partnering with Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of America, Girls, Inc.,” Shields said. “A big thrust that we have is reaching out to the under-represented demographics of girls, minorities, challenged communities...
28 April 2017
Cassini's first dive between Saturn and its rings
...large, four metre-dish-shaped high-gain antenna as a shield, against the flurry of oncoming ring particles. This meant ...that Cassini was out of contact with Earth while its shield was orientated at an angle to protect it. The craft, which ...
11 February 2019
Earth's magnetic north pole is on the move and its going fast
... iron in the Earth’s outer core throws out a protective shield, that protects life from the stream of charged particles constantly ...pouring out from the Sun. This shield, or rather magnetic field as we know it by, also...
08 May 2020
China's prototype spacecraft lands successfully on Earth
... its return to Earth on Wednesday. Fitted with an inflatable, low-mass heat shield, the cargo re-entry vehicle was supposed to deploy its umbrella-shaped heat shield to a diameter of nearly 3 metre (10 feet), before falling back into Earth...
12 October 2016
‘Asgardia’ to become the first new Space Nation
... open up access to space for commerce, science and peoples of all countries on earth; - Key early development to include a shield against cosmic hazards [PARIS, FRANCE] Plans were announced today at a press conference in Paris to create the first...
