May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
... valuable isotope of helium that could be used in future fusion reactors. As the PSRs are shaded from the Sun, the surface material or ‘regolith’ is expected to contain less helium-3 than more exposed regions, which further diminishes...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... come up with, Artemis stands for ‘Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence, and Electrodynamics of the Moon’s Interaction with the Sun’. NASA’s objective is to herald in a new era for space exploration and utilisation and, while it is leading the...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... period of the Crab pulsar, a rotating neutron star. Before Arecibo, Mercury was thought to be tidally locked to the Sun, with orbital and rotational periods of 88 days. However, in 1965, Arecibo radar observations showed that this was...
June 2022
Space activities and space debris - finding an ethical balance
... thousands of years, humans have gazed in wonder at the immensity of the sky above, documenting the movements of the Sun, Moon, stars and planets, incredulous at the magnificence of it all. Starry nights have inspired the greatest thinkers...
October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
.... MILITARY REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES Yunhai meteorological satellite (YH) Yunhai 1 is a meteorological satellite series [2016, 2019] in sun-synchronous orbits (SSO), according to state media used for “detecting the atmospheric and marine environment...
20 September 2018
TESS finds its first exoplanet – a super-Earth 60 light years away
... revealed the location of its first find - a super-Earth exoplanet around a younger, but bigger version of our sun. Located in the constellation of Mensa, this yellow sub giant star known as Pi Mensae (or HD39091), can be seen with...
