April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... motivated by profit or for reasons of outreach to enhance STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) participation by students or the public [24]. Definition of the GEO protected region as per IADC guideline 3.3.2 [2]. This defines a toroid...
May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
... dependent on it being a staple comfort food; something that kept us all connected to our childhood, our days as college students and our ‘cheat days’ from whatever diet we were trying. Again, it tied us back to Earth. Cooking for...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
..., which could lend itself to any interpretation! The total weight of all the satellites was 1377 kg. Engineering students working on Nayif-1 developed by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) and American University of Sharjah (AUS...
July 2017
Rapidly evolving space industry needs faster UN response
..., seem promising but the long-term results remain uncertain. About the author Tomas Hrozensky is a PhD student at the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. His doctoral research at the Security Studies Department of the...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
... research around the development of robotic roving vehicles and the search for life on Mars. As part of this, students from across Australia and around the world can remotely operate research-grade robot rovers in the...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... Division at ESTEC/ESA before moving to Japan where he is currently working on planetary robotics as a prospective PhD student at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. Kazuya Yoshida is a Professor in the Graduate School of Engineering, Department...