March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
...), commissioning, routine operations with an optional mission extension, and end of mission operations (see Table 2). The individual sky survey observations are planned many months to weeks in advance and executed at a pre-programmed time. The main...
September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... to become increasingly sophisticated, making them capable of handling the burden of bridging the digital divide. The Pearls, Sky and Space Global’s future equatorial nanosatellite communications network, will have key features such as 3m span of sun...
04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
... an 8.4 metre primary mirror and it will be able to image the entire sky in only a few nights. Its role, amongst other things, will be ... by 60 bright moving dots in their otherwise familiar sky. And with more and more satellites, the potential for...
11 November 2019
Fourth time rocket reuse for SpaceX mission but concerns still over satellites
..., pictures surfaced of a train of lights sailing through the dark skies in one long line (see below). An image that quickly cast... their word, will it really make a big difference to the night sky or is it just a big fuss about nothing? Since the first...
24 October 2018
New constellations for Fermi's 10th birthday
... the telescope is still going strong, as a new all-sky Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalogue is currently being prepared that..., Schrödinger’s Cat and Mount Fuji in Japan depicted in the sky as points of the highest-energy light in the Universe, then ...
02 December 2020
Astronomers map a million previously undiscovered galaxies in record time
... – one exabyte is the equivalent of one billion gigabytes. The finished product looks like an image of a normal night sky vista CSIRO says, but instead of stars, the millions of bright specks captured on the panorama are distant...
