... derelict satellites from LEO. The Clearing the LEO Environment with Active Removal (CLEAR) mission, which will ...satellites launched last year alone, the need to safeguard the space environment for the benefit of everyone on Earth has never been...
... from Raptor Aerospace is on reforming the suborbital spaceflight market by providing short-duration access to space environments. This kind of space access has traditionally been used by scientific researchers in order to collect data and carry out...
..., the main ethical issue here is that of sustainability and protection of the space environment. One of the main objections to the commercialisation of space exploration is the risk of repeating the overexploitation known from human history on Earth...
... of building interplanetary fuel depots and large, radiation-protected, artificial gravity orbital stations near colonised planets. Space settlements on the Moon, Mars, Ceres, Titan and other celestial bodies can be protected from hypogravity, as the...
... oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico in 2006 highlight the critical need to protect the ocean environment. AIS for the environment S-AIS data provides accurate information on ship behaviour and position such that determining, or definitively...
By 8.00pm BST yesterday, the rare transit of Mercury as it passed in front of the Sun, had come to a close. The event, that occurs due to the alignment of the Sun, Mercury and Earth, is a phenomenon that happens just a dozen or so times per century ...