31 July 2019
GLEE mission aims to send 500 LunaSats to the Moon
... in science, technology, engineering and math disciplines. As such, these leaf-sized LunaSats will be designed and built by students, or “GLEEmers,” as they have become known, at a cost of around $200 each. The devices will work as a fully-capable...
March 2015
Sowing a new dream
.... I had to work hard at keeping my balance while doing my demonstrations. Back on Earth After return to Earth, I established teacher-student relations with many children and received many letters from them. One child wrote to me, “Teacher Wang...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... internet coverage to disconnected populations has been widely discussed by both academia and commercial companies. In 2013, a student team at the International Space University (ISU) suggested providing sustainable and affordable internet access for...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
... European Parabolic Flight Opportunities by Novespace in 2017. Space agencies also offer educational and research programmes to students from secondary school to doctoral level (e.g. ‘Fly your Thesis’, STEM outreach) and artist residencies to share...
07 July 2015
James Yoder’s Stuff in Space: what orbits Earth in real time & the problem of junk
..., we can now see just how crowded the orbit around Earth has become. Stuff in Space, created by student James Yoder, tracks daily data from Space-Track.org and tracks the positions of objects by employing...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... cause a spacecraft of mass (M) to accelerate with acceleration A, F = MxA, an equation familiar to introductory physics students everywhere. While the force exerted by sunlight is extremely small, it’s relatively constant, resulting in a slow but...
