21 July 2021
New balloon-borne astronomical telescope to rival Hubble
...Space Telescope, will be lofted 40 kilometres high above the atmosphere next year by a helium balloon the size of a ... before it passes through the Earth’s swirling, turbulent atmosphere. Without our atmosphere we could not survive, but when it comes ...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... colonies, much remains to be done on the practicalities of settlement. Added resources such as ground heat, water and increased atmospheric pressure can be instrumental. The Lake Matthew Team (LMT) has invented the Mars Terraformer Transfer (MATT...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), at an altitude of about 400 km, are beyond the radiation protection of Earth’s atmosphere, they still enjoy the benefits provided by the magnetic field of Earth. But when astronauts venture beyond...
November 2019
UAE meteor and debris monitoring network
.... Many of these remnants do not enter the atmosphere; instead, they orbit around the Earth, with the...a faint meteor observed on 4 March 2019. When a meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere, it burns up and appears as a streak of light, resulting in an...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
... an image in the infrared, these devices were attached to complex, two-dimensional scanning systems. For the detection of atmospheric gases on board a satellite, it is far better to use a two-dimensional array - as this can gather more data while...
October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
..., spatial orientation, and cognitive functions. With the dramatic lighting, lack of colour, variable gravity and lack of atmosphere, this could create optical illusions within our ‘Earth brains’, producing the perception of something in a way that...
