March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... his inner Captain James T Kirk as he continued: “This comforter of blue that we have around us. We think, Oh, that’s blue sky. And then suddenly you shoot through it all of a sudden, as though you whip a sheet off you when...
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...
May 2026
Mars exploration – the nuclear option
... goal; it’s a dream that humanity has carried since we first looked up and wondered what lay beyond the sky. However, even as technology advances, one challenge remains unchanged: transit time. It still takes more than 200...
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...
