February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... the others being the Outer Hebrides and Woomera, Australia. The Outer Hebrides lost out because of poor ...Black Arrow, Black Knight and Blue Streak, was eventually switched to Australia - until the launcher project was axed in 1972. The problem...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... perceptible. The astronomers use large radio dishes in Parkes, Australia, and in Green Bank, West Virginia, USA, in the...hedge their bets. Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia. Frank Drake, an astronomer who used the Green Bank ...
October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
... EMS during an emergency activation of the International Charter showing wildfires at Bendemeer, Australia, in November 2019. Bushfires spread across parts of southeast Australia from June 2019 until January 2020, burning over 18.6 million hectares...
September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
... announced on 13 October 2020 during the 71st International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Dubai. The initial eight countries (Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
...lines U2 spy plane pilots. Hammaguir in Algeria and Woomera, Australia, were chosen by the French and British respectively as inland ...rotted but became the target of ‘dark tourism’. Woomera, Australia, though, has seen new life as a recovery area...
08 September 2016
Close encounters of the asteroid kind: 2016 RB1 passes remarkably close to Earth
..., Slovak Republic, and Italy. According to Ernesto Guido, who photographed 2016 RB1 in Siding Spring, Australia, using a remotely-controlled telescope, "It was shining about as brightly as a 12th magnitude star.” The asteroid is a frequent visitor...
