09 October 2020
BepiColombo could search for signs of life as it flybys Venus next week
... exciting news that a gas associated with signs of life (PH3) had been spotted in the cloud tops of Venus, ESA’s BepiColombo mission might be able to add to this discovery as it makes its first flyby of Venus on ...
21 June 2021
Astronomers using GBT discover previously unknown huge galactic structure
... space neither emit nor absorb light in the visible part of the spectrum. H2 is known to produce a signal known as the 21-centimetre line in the ISM, and as it readily penetrates the clouds of interstellar dust particles that obstruct optical...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... for active human direction. Others have referred to the IoT as the “digital framework that will connect smart objects such as appliances, watches, and cars to the cloud.”6 These rapid advances in satellite, satcoms, and Wi-Fi technologies present...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
.... Collected data is transferred to ground stations where all the transmissions received from thousands of devices in the field are decoded by patented receiver software hosted in the cloud, providing scalable low-cost connectivity for a range...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
..., with a nod at reality through inclusion of technical chapters or appendices. Nice examples of this approach are Adventure Above the Clouds (Blacke, 1933) by Frank Monk and Henry Winter, and Zero to Eighty: Being My Lifetime Doings, Reflections, and...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
.... It didn’t matter how rich or powerful you were, how much you might have wanted to rise above the clouds and look back at our home planet, it wasn’t possible technologically to do so (though, of course, we had hints of it through hot...
