18 October 2016
Australian Defence space capability gets a boost as it gets ready to launch its Buccaneer CubeSats
... Australia’s Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) from Low Earth Orbit. “Satellites and space debris move around erratically due to space weather and atmospheric drag, even at high altitudes. These movements are not well understood and...
May 2021
Taking quantum into space
... accessories around them can improve our resilience by giving us precise timing measurements using quantum clocks, predicting space weather events using magnetometers and giving us more up to date resource information under the earth using quantum...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... the NSF/DOE Large Synoptic Survey Telescope); enhancing prediction of and preparedness for space hazards, notably Near Earth Objects (NEOs) and space weather; and harnessing the small satellite revolution. At present, it is too early to tell what...
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...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... which will measure radiation on the surface of the phantoms, and the expertise of NASA’s Space Radiation Analysis Group (SRAG), which monitors space weather to ensure astronaut safety on the ISS. Lockheed Martin personnel are also playing a central...
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...
