May 2024
Prioritising space solutions to accelerate sustainable development
... is what it means to embed ‘space by design’ into the fabric of an economy. But I would invite you to think a little bit further than this. We are all affected by current global challenges. Climate change is one of them; political stability...
October 2024
Virtualisation of the satellite sector
... satellites. High Throughput Satellite (HTS) platforms have increased bandwidth and performance and lowered price-per-bit. Payloads are now often software-defined, highly flexible and configurable in orbit with steerable and splitable...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
... been squeamish about exploring these sorts of questions. Unfortunately, the work done to date is not the least bit systematic - it’s been done on different creatures, in different setups, with different protocols, for different lengths of time. The...
13 March 2015
Ceres breakthrough: NASA's Dawn is first probe to visit a dwarf planet
... in that when other people appreciate what Dawn did, we will doing a lot more of this. It takes a little bit of extra time, but it's safer and cheaper, and that's important. Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and...
03 July 2015
Progress departs for ISS as two previous failures have world on edge
... Houston Chronicle, expressed the general ethos that has accompanied this latest Progress mission – it was all a bit too close for comfort, particularly considering the difficulties faced by the Russian space program in recent years...
25 August 2015
NASA’s Dawn gets up close and personal with Ceres: stunning conical mountain revealed in detail
... Dawn. Of particular interest is the dramatic, conical mountain on Ceres that Dawn snapped. This mountain is just a little bit shorter than Mt. Everest. What particularly makes the mountain stand out is just how small Ceres truly...
