December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
...Mars mission as “a triumph of low-cost engineering”. Future collaboration Significantly, ISRO was in ‘go’ mode for this mission, even... on 24 September. “Such is the high level of collaboration between India and the US in the space sector,’’ Arunan...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
... Lunar Missions Labs will encourage creative online workshops where anyone, anywhere in the world, will be able to collaborate with others to solve real life challenges of the project. As with all fledgling space exploration projects, we are...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... polar orbiting (Metop) satellites, where ESA builds the satellites that are then operated by EUMETSAT. Collaborating with worldwide research organizations, operational space agencies, and international environmental groups is a top priority of ESA...
October 2015
Growing space businesses in the UK: from incubation centres to public funding
... Centres on its shores Many of the most successful commercial space developments in the UK have come from collaborations between academia and space industry3. There’s a strong track record of engineering achievements combined with entrepreneurial...
March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
...just starting,” says Gabriela Gonzalez, spokesperson of the LIGO collaboration. The difference between the sum of the masses during... chair of the Data Analysis Council in the LIGO collaboration. “When the gravitational waves signal arrives, the delay ...
March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
... questions about scientific disciplines Once one realises how huge the number of people involved is, questions concerning collaboration must arise. How are they organised? Are they based at different institutions (NASA, SpaceX, universities or other...
