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...
29 March 2018
Materials and Processes for Spacecraft and High Reliability Applications
...post-flight materials’. As far as illustrations are concerned, engineering problems related to spacecraft hardware in the space environment are “highlighted by over 500 illustrations including micrographs and fractographs”. The big surprise, for such...
20 May 2022
Science Fiction
... everything from “Robots, AI and Transhumanism” to “Environment, climate change and the Anthropocene” along with futurology,..., meaning that ‘Shuttle Enterprise’ got nowhere near the space environment. Overall, there’s very little not to like about ...
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...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
...Space Office (NSO), forms part of a joint EC-ESA undertaking which aims to acquire continuous and accurate Earth observation data to improve the management of the environment...manager. He is also involved in Space Debris Mitigation, and in particular ...
