October 2015
Space debris, Kessler Syndrome, and the unreasonable expectation of certainty
... can lead to large discrepancies in predictions of the position of satellites, compared with the reality, even after a relatively short period of time. This affects our collision probability predictions. In fact, we take the same approach as weather...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... with international partners and preparatory technology developments. Germany leads Europe as the largest contributor of funds to the relatively recent field of human spaceflight, which is still not 60 years old. This relates, in particular, to the...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... for building small low-cost satellites with short missions. Like most technology viewed in retrospect, ‘small’ is relative. Triana weighed about the same as an early model Fiat 500 - much lighter than your typical school...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
The beginning of Polish activity in astronomy dates back to the 15th century and the famous figure of the time - Copernicus. His work, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, describes in detail the heliocentric theory of our planetary system. ...
January 2017
Prospects for progress on space security diplomacy
...the world’s security and well-being is enormous if hard to quantify. All of this activity is premised on continuation of the relatively benign operating environment of space, free up to this point from man-made attacks or threats against space assets...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
... of field that evolves dynamically with the expansion of the universe? Is dark energy instead a manifestation of a breakdown of General Relativity and deviations from the law of gravity? What is the nature of dark matter and its properties? What...
