February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... and technology projects. It was proposed to build a high-resolution Earth observation system based on satellites, stratospheric airships and aircraft. The associated ground systems would be improved or developed. The combination of these measures...
May 2024
Could ICAO be a NewSpace regulator?
...which has already been divided by space experts into the following layers of the atmosphere: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and exosphere. These artificial distinctions incorporate the various functions at specific heights in the...
01 April 2015
Media Spun Up on NASA Cutting-edge Mars Landing Technology
... saucer is expected to make a controlled landing onto the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii. The upper layers of Earth's stratosphere are the most similar environment available to match the properties of the thin atmosphere of Mars. The LDSD...
04 April 2018
A storm hunter and space junk collector on its way to the ISS
... break-downs in the mesosphere and “blue jets” – another type of discharge that propagates upwards into the stratosphere from cloud tops. ELVES on the other hand are concentric rings of emissions caused by an electromagnetic pulse in the...
19 December 2018
Saturn's iconic rings are dying fast say scientists
... path of unseen magnetic field lines down into Saturn’s upper atmosphere and washing away sections of the stratospheric haze to produce the distinctive darker stripes seen so clearly in the Voyager images; a theory that looks to have...
19 June 2020
US firm offers flights to edge-of-space under high-tech balloon
... of Florida’s space coast, has announced its plans to fly passengers and research payloads 30 kilometres into the stratosphere in its futuristic-looking craft called Spaceship Neptune. Flown by a pilot, Space Perspective say that Neptune can...
