October 2026
Redefining the edge of the solar system
... near Sun-Earth L1 monitor the solar wind and provide early warnings of space weather that affects Earth’s magnetosphere. Astrophysics observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), orbit near Sun-Earth L2, enjoy a thermally stable...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... were thermal control, hydrogen production and storage, photovoltaics, energy storage, life support systems, robotics and space weather effects. Once a list of prospective technologies was formulated, each area was subsequently analysed against a set...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
... - supporting sustainable development on Earth Space debris - space operations and tools to support collaborative space situational awareness Space weather - regulatory regimes and guidance for actors in the space arena. At present the Working Group...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
... mission-related interdependencies (such as orbital safety of operations) and common underlying space object behavioral injunctions (e.g., space weather, or policies governing graveyard orbits). But the foundational problem - to accurately understand...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... way all of the very real threats that come to our planet from space - orbital space debris, issues related to changes to the geomagnetosphere, threats from space weather (i.e. CMEs, solar radiation flares, and depletion of the ozone layer), all...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
...to install a payload on the exterior of a satellite. Such payloads could fulfil a wide variety of missions: Earth imaging, communications, space weather monitoring, and more. But they cannot make use of the host satellite’s systems; they must provide...
