February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
...new applications. Why is it of strategic importance for European space? We are now beginning the discussion for developing standards for joint missions with China in the domain of science and space exploration It is of paramount importance for Europe...
October 2019
Asgardia’s calendar and its role in space industrialisation strategy
... of the terrestrial calendar system with a space-based one. The calendar of the space state of Asgardia is a fixed-standard, digital reference, uniform version of the 13-month global space calendar of the sixth strategic socio-economic formation...
03 June 2019
CEN and CENELEC to hold workshop on standards in space applications
... industry, technology providers, policy makers, civil society and the standardisation community, to identify challenges and how standardization can help overcome them. Participants will also discover the opportunities of the use of satellite data for...
May 2025
A time zone for the Moon
... itself; put simply, what time is it on the Moon? The importance of time Without the introduction of a single time standard, in particular on the Moon, but also more generally in space, it may be difficult to ensure the security of data transmission...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
... ISS consortium defined six objectives: Manufacturing a space analogue mobile test facility Integration and test of an International Standard Payload Rack plant cultivation system for future tests on-board ISS and a Future Exploration Greenhouse for...
16 December 2016
Mini-spiral galaxies may transform how dark matter is perceived
... the latter,” explains Salucci. "It is a very strong effect that cannot be explained trivially using the Standard Model of particles." The Standard Model explains how the basic building blocks of matter interact through three fundamental forces, the...
