April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... pinned heroism medals onto cosmonauts and visited design bureaux and factories, which he still tours. A big space science mission planned in the 1980s, the Spektr R telescope, finally flew in 2011 and made a major contribution to astronomy...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... hazards was limited to countries with operational space science missions, but the growing volume and variety of infrastructure interconnections has changed the status of space weather among the space community, while the magnitude of the associated...
October 2026
Winning the Space Race at home
...and Vietnam. Key takeaways underscored the importance of strong regional and global cooperation in space science and technology applications, and addressing future space challenges. Study and learn With barely a decade of experience, it can be argued...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
...human has set foot on any celestial body outside of Earth. In those intervening decades, we have made advances in space science, engineering and commerce but, when it comes to hands-on experience in exploring another world, humanity is only now about...
June 2018
Publish or perish: the astronomer’s dilemma
...The other notion is the image of a ‘system’ of science comprising the funding, publication and evaluation system, with values ...between the ‘ideal’ and the ‘system’ notions of science is that scientific discovery is naturally unpredictable where, for...
23 December 2015
First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks
... landing site are intermediate in titanium, as well as rich in iron, said Zongcheng Ling, associate professor in the School of Space Science and Physics at Shandong University in Weihai, and first author of the Nature paper in which these results are...
