December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
... Meyer. The original can be found at: www.researchgate.net About the author Annaliese Meyer is a PhD student in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program studying zinc isotope fractionation in marine...
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...
08 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...
June 2018
Publish or perish: the astronomer’s dilemma
... world. The interviewees were four faculty members, two post docs, one PhD and two Master’s students. The study (https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08033) was complemented by an analysis of annual reports and evaluation...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... Robert Twiggs (Stanford) who were looking to improve hands-on experience and skills for science and engineering students. It defines standardised masses and volumes for small spacecraft, in addition to specifying how to safely integrate the...
