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...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... Earth’s magnetic field, measuring the strength in the ISM is a formidable task requiring specialised telescopes. The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA’) High-Resolution Airborne Wideband Camera (HAWC+) is a far-IR polarimeter...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...military A-4 rockets into the atmosphere in the 1950s, they advertised their peaceful purpose in the exploration of the stratosphere. The propelling force for the first satellite was the international scientific project, the International Geophysical...
