June 2022
Space activities and space debris - finding an ethical balance
For thousands of years, humans have gazed in wonder at the immensity of the sky above, documenting the movements of the Sun, Moon, stars and planets, incredulous at the magnificence of it all. Starry ...
February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... of threatening military operations and drills executed against Taiwan, with manoeuvres taking place in the waters and skies near Taiwan and including the live-firing of ballistic missiles in the Taiwan Strait. Undoubtedly, the use...
28 October 2015
Catalina Sky Survey spots object WT1190F – set to return to Earth on November 13
... is a problem – and the mystery object set to plummet to Earth in November is a good reminder as to why. Spotted by the Catalina Sky Survey, due to its parameters, object WT1190F (are the letters WTF here accidental? We somehow doubt it) is believed...
05 April 2017
The final journey for EUMETSAT’s oldest operational meteorological satellite
... operational meteorological satellite, Meteosat-7, it is on its way to its final resting place in the “graveyard orbit” in the skies. Launched on 2 September 1997, Meteosat-7 was developed under the Meteosat Transition Programme (MTP), and was part...
14 July 2021
Phosphine gas on Venus points to volcanism not life, study says
The ongoing debate as to whether signs of phosphine in Venus’ skies signalled the presence of microbes was dealt a serious blow last month when a new study suggested that ...
10 September 2021
Survey detects 461 Solar System objects not found before
..., as before, some of those were already known from past surveys. Bernardinelli and colleagues new sweep of the skies though has thrown up a few new interesting objects, including nine new “extreme” TNOs, four new Neptune...
