October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... thousand you can buy a ride to the edge of space, or maybe float in the gondola of a balloon floating in the stratosphere. For now space is expensive, and if you want to ‘do’ space, you have to have a lot of cash to spend. But...
January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
... data archives. Airbus is optimistic about High-Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS). The solar-electric powered stratospheric unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) would provide persistent coverage with different sensors such as higher resolution streaming...
February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
...’s GRAS instrument is a GNSS Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding, along with temperature profiling in the troposphere and stratosphere with high vertical resolution. GOME-2, also developed by ESA is the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2, measuring...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
... for conducting scientific experiments free from the constraints of gravity - free-fall towers, drops from a stratospheric balloon and sounding rockets as well as recoverable microgravity platforms and automatic satellites, from nanosatellites and...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... the multitude of artefacts sent into deep space, deposited on the surface of the Moon, temporarily hovering in the stratosphere, or any of the speculative works that illustrate space-age futures here on Earth. While these efforts bring...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
... over 160 peer-reviewed publications. He has also proposed a steam balloon concept for lifting rockets to the stratosphere for launch, analysed large-scale habitation of the Ceres orbit and coauthored a book on astrobiology. His Coulomb...
