November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
..., 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...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... 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...
March 2015
Shipping, the environment and satellite AIS
... 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...
May 2016
Rare Mercury transit complete
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 ...
08 September 2017
The solar systems most powerful auroras are still a mystery
... more distant astrophysical systems accelerate particles to such immense energies. “Jupiter is the link between the nearby space environments we study at planets like Earth, and distant astrophysical systems where magnetic fields hold sway, such...
09 October 2020
BepiColombo could search for signs of life as it flybys Venus next week
... science instruments on the MPO and three out of five on the MMO to examine the planet’s atmosphere and space environment. Now, following the detection of phosphine from telescopes on Earth, the team want to see if one of those instruments...
