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March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
...so they made 28. Karen’s art and her own love of quilting certainly generated more excitement for the art of quilting, but at the same time did a great job opening up the world of space exploration to a group of people ... walk on the Moon. As Susanne describes it, this multifaceted collection includes quilts that, “commemorate the iconic images from the news; recall personal memories of July 20, 1969; honour all of the Apollo missions; recognise ...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
... USA, has worked on all four of NASA’s Great Observatories - Hubble, Compton, Chandra and Spitzer – which gives him a fairly unique perspective on space science. ROOM’s US editor, Amanda Miller, delves into his engineering background... identify the ingredients that eventually produced planets, comets and other bodies in our solar system. What was superfluid helium like to work with? At times we were consuming the world’s supply of superfluid helium...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... point. Political reform cannot happen without understanding past and present political reality in space. The biggest stain on benign images of space technology and the Space Age is that it helped bring about the prospect...capable missiles, nuclear warheads and spy satellites. The US Space Shuttle was in part originally designed and funded to meet the Pentagon’s and the Intelligence Community’s needs. The Hubble Space Telescope is an adapted KH-11...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
...twenty-first century. Surrounded by stars - this starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21 (also known as Palomar...again”. Moreover, the steps to be taken to get our Earth out of its ecological ruts and environmental crises seem at times greater, and more difficult to take, than those taken half a century ago to achieve a foothold on the...
August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
...of electro-optical data to design and build a model for automatic space object characterisation. Figure 3: The so-called embedding-space of the VAE. In this space all data (in this case x-ray images) are clustered together depending on ...The online learning is an iterative learning process, where the machine learning model is updated over time and learns progressively, analogous to human learning. In this case Roke is using dense neural networks ...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... (SAR) constellation with both C and X-band images to enable new applications, including 3D reconstructions of terrestrial landscapes. The first images released from its satellite, Hisea-1, ...Space Launch/Access: reduce cost and cycle time and launch on demand, high performance propulsion, enable reusable launch. SATCOM: integrate communications across the US Department of Defense to form the combat cloud, layer Positioning, Navigation and Timing...
January 2023
Is human space exploration DOOMED?
... go forth across the never-ending Universe, because its cosmic expansion will be checked in space and time by two barriers. The cluster of galaxies Abell 1689. Life in our observable universe is...will be picked up by other metagalaxies and go through the process of expansion and contraction. NASA James Webb Space Telescope image of Stephan s Quintet giving astronomers a ringside seat to galactic mergers and interactions. In the last 10 to...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... must be cognisant of a possible pandemic occurring in space, or the risk of a virus piggybacking on objects or personnel returning from space. Either scenario may cripple costly space missions for indefinite periods of time, and if proved fatal and uncontained, may compromise the survival of the...
August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
...is not the activity itself but its surrounding legal framework. International space treaties include specific provisions on the use of outer space and on the cooperation of States in benefiting from the results of ...a compromise between public and private interests. Whether a regulatory solution is on the horizon or not, the debate on space resources governance is definitely here to stay, especially given the time-consuming procedures involved. ...
