March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... greenhouse gases (GHG) from space. The original concept was to use satellites to measure atmospheric composition in the stratosphere and upper troposphere by tracking the sun through the atmosphere when the satellite saw the sun...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
..., SkCube. SOSA is now exploring new fields of astrobiology research: searching for terrestrial or alien life in the stratosphere, possibly even in space using CubeSats. Ultimately, I hope to be able to answer some of the intriguing questions that...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... the presence of clouds and information on the thermal structure of exoplanets e.g. we can find evidence of whether there is a stratosphere that causes a temperature inversion, as in the case of the Earth, Titan or the giant planets. A need for data...
May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
... our cluttering up Earth orbit with space junk, or the advent of cubesats, megasatellite constellations, hypersonic transport, stratospheric and celestial body pollution or robotic freighters - and many other issues stimulated by emerging technology...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... the Martian missions. And for those who wanted strong sensations there was always the extra-stratospheric solo return glide at supersonic speed. Terraforming In the same vein, the battle of principle continues for the...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
...certainty. Sub-orbital activity is defined in s1(5) as applying to a rocket or craft capable of operating above the stratosphere or a balloon capable of carrying crew or passengers. The more readily understood ‘space activity’ is covered in s1(4) and...
