July 2014
The peaceful use of space
... space (resolution 62/101); and on national space legislation (resolution 68/74). The space arena has seen a massive surge in activity in recent years. The increasing presence of new players and the emerging space capabilities of developing nations...
October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
..., and to build new ones, to protect the coastlines against the increased wave heights and storm surges associated with an impact. Greater consideration is required in determining proportionate and effective contingency planning arrangements. These...
March 2016
Space debris conundrum for international law makers
... that certain objects are debris according to size, volume or weight? Where do we draw the line? The recent surge in cubesat and miniaturisation technology is bound to further muddy the legal waters. A road travelled together To conclusively deal...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... tipped in favour of traditional satellites - both in terms of deployments and in raw mass. Yet the CubeSat was quietly surging. Between 2002 and 2010, the number of scholarly mentions in academic papers per year of the term ‘CubeSat...
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
... and economical methods to build, launch and operate satellite systems and capabilities. Naturally, there has been a surge of interest in considering how smallsats play into the equation of lower cost space architectures because of the fact...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
..., may change. New approaches Today, there is increased enthusiasm for SETI. While this is partially due to the surge in planetary discovery, there are also improvements in technology that can broaden the search and increase its...
