25 August 2021
Russia's Luna-25 mission postponed over 'problems during testing'
... Union, it was also the last spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon until the landing of China's Chang'e 3 on 14 December 2013, 37 years later. Luna-24 returned 170.1 g (6.00 oz) of moon samples to the Earth in August 1976, a gram of which...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
... businesses and even terrorist groups such as Daesh. The biggest implication, however, is that this radical technological change combines with a strategic geography of mostly open terrain to create the perfect conditions for transparency. Add to this...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
...like the wall, when it moved and opened, the world changed forever. Down below some of the right people were listening ...to take the bucks they had made and make a difference, to change the future. While perhaps in the end you can call them joyrides,...
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
... mobile phone first released in 2000. Software development processes and techniques for flight software have not changed as significantly as they have here on Earth. The emergence of smartphones rebranded the old concept of software applications into...
18 December 2020
Experiment to dim sunlight with chalk dust under review
In an attempt to determine if long-lived reflective particles placed into Earth’s upper atmosphere could diminish global warming by blocking sunlight, scientists at Harvard University are proposing a stratospheric balloon experiment to test just ...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
... accurate Earth observation data to improve the management of the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change and support civil security. A key objective will be to ensure data continuity from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument...
