October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
...-Meusburger, architect and habitability researcher, has observed the relationship between the built environment and human activities in the space environment and during simulations studies on Earth, and has identified behavioural issues with mission...
26 January 2018
NASA launches GOLD to study Earth-space boundary
... in solar flares, flurries of energised particles make their way towards Earth with the potential to disrupt our space environment. Such influences are not only difficult to predict, but dramatic changes can also occur in as little as an hour...
24 June 2022
UK to lead review of space legislation and financial support for debris removal
... and associated regulations, with a specific focus on orbital constellations which are rapidly changing space environment. It also places more emphasis on the UK space system licensing process and associated third party liability insurance that will...
December 2014
From the green economy to green space
... attention or allocate sufficient resources to providing ecological security and protecting the environment. Instead, space is stuck on the important issue of space debris in near-Earth space. But even this problem will not being solved, until the...
December 2014
Before Rosetta: Svetlana Gerasimenko’s story
... long time. When I heard that a man had just flown to space, I went running and screaming back into the class and announced the news...with comets. In those days, the universal interest in space meant that astronomy was not an unusual profession and ...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
...purple). Mariner 10 remained the only spacecraft to probe Mercury until the recent MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging - a reference to the Roman mythological messenger Mercury). MESSENGER was the first spacecraft...
