August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... stations. Reaction Engines’ Skylon spaceplane. So while we marvel at applications like GPS, gawp as rockets power into the cosmos and admire the astronauts and the work they do, perhaps we should also ask the question: is this...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
.... Further, on 10 February 2009, Iridium 33 (then a fully-functional satellite owned by the US) was accidently struck by Cosmos-2251 (a defunct satellite owned by Russia) at a relative velocity of about 11.7 km/s, producing an impact energy equivalent...
August 2021
Born to juggle in space
... view of Space Shuttles leaving the planet, I developed an early appreciation for space exploration. In addition to my love of the cosmos, and perhaps related to my obsession with physics, I have had a lifelong fascination with the ways human bodies...
September 2023
Satellite manufacturing - building to size, speed and security
... to the NewSpace universe. The universe is expanding and stars are exploding, releasing their atoms into the cosmos to form the building blocks of life. Who can deny that ‘space is sexy’? My first scientific romance began...
04 August 2017
Most accurate measurement of Universe's dark matter revealed by DES survey
... expansion history. The DES team have also created the largest guide to spotting dark matter in the cosmos by firstly creating maps of galaxy positions as tracers and then using gravitational lensing to map galaxy shapes over...
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
...fibre of a tree or the figure of an animal. God is the cosmos. That includes the Earth, of course, but also everything else.” What makes... in his workshop, explaining his vision of the cosmos to the author. About the author Guerric de Crombrugghe...
