11 September 2017
Are we being watched from afar?
...civilisations from another world point their telescopes at the night skies, would they be able to spot us amongst the plethora...Solar System from afar, by identifying parts of the distant sky from where various planets in our Solar System could be seen...
29 March 2018
China's Tiangong-1 space lab is destined for Earth, soon!
... need something else to search for then perhaps avert your eyes to the skies, as China’s retired Tiangong-1 space lab could soon light up the skies as it plummets towards Earth in a (possible) fiery extravaganza. The Tiangong-1 was China...
March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
... silent film Metropolis, which has been embraced by the likes of Karl Lagerfeld and Thierry Mugler. The sky and stars continue to exert a strong influence on our culture - and nowhere more so than in the world of fashion...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... about the giant planet, which was named after the powerful king of the gods, master of the sky and thunder of the ancient Romans. In Latin, a satelles (or plural satellitis) was an attendant or servant of a powerful person, often...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
... on the Moon is potentially more lucrative than mining an asteroid. Aside from providing a stunning backdrop to the night sky that has wowed humanity for thousands of years, the Moon has many valuable resources; just like...
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... altitude (35,786 km) where satellites match the Earth’s sidereal rotation period, (thereby appearing fixed in the sky relative to a point on Earth, and so providing a convenient location from which to relay telephone communications). The first...
