August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
.... She is also grateful to Koustuv Sinha, a McGill Computer Science Graduate Student, for his invaluable inputs and insights. Notwithstanding anything stated above, the author remains exclusively responsible for any error contained in this article...
November 2018
Connecting and collaborating for innovation
.... An example is the use of the microgravity environment to understand how the human body adapts to space, to gain fresh insight into earthbound conditions that afflict human beings, such as the effects of ageing. A great deal has been...
November 2018
Being human in space
...of our conscious experience representing an ‘after-the-fact’ summary of vastly larger amounts of unconscious information. This insight demands taking active responsibility for the sensory input once we are thinking about sharing a spaceship as it per...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
...-3, with the spacecraft performing precise formation manoeuvres for six hours around apogee. Proba-3 will provide insight on the inner corona where solar wind and CMEs originate. Enabling new science capabilities Since the...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... on all airless solar system bodies and understanding how simulant materials respond to hypervelocity impacts can provide insights as to how materials are affected by these processes on the Moon and Mars. Though the Moon’s surface is constantly...
February 2019
Chaos and creation – cultural directions for the space industry
... and ways to link ideas and activities together. Although seemingly simple these exercises can give profound insights. Speaking a word in a whisper or a shout, singing or saying words individually, together or combining with movement can affect its...
