January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... police’ exist with zero tolerance for the unauthorised possession of a controlled space resource The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is a space museum that displays space artefacts, many of which are on loan from NASA. Following the resignation...
May 2021
Forecasting space-weather effects on Earth
...these changes can trigger a sudden explosion of electromagnetic energy, called a solar flare, which releases radiation into space. Sometimes, this release is accompanied by an ejection of plasma (hot clouds of ionised gas) from its surface. These are...
September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
..., will only happen if we take this responsibility seriously. Even if we have to give in, at least partially, to the dual character of space, our laws implore us to forsake turning Earth orbit into a military zone, whilst at the same time recognising...
February 2019
Chaos and creation – cultural directions for the space industry
... me to design a new educational programme for the space industry which focuses on teaching the need for involving ...they are the bare minimum. As there is no such violence yet in space so there could be an altogether new type of declaration. So, we ...
March 2019
Urgent action needed to avert space debris threat
... the coming years. Transparent communication Currently, there are a number of methods of tracking objects in space, such as the Space Data Association’s Space Data Center (SDC), which ingests flight dynamics information from member companies as well...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
...are the implementations. As the commercial community realises and upgrades components or modules in use by state-of-the-art space systems, those same upgraded components will require less effort to integrate than would an utterly proprietary solution...
