November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... constraints normally associated with this type of process. The lower pricing of microgravity experiments has also been a game changer. By opening the Space Station to a wider public, companies such as NanoRacks have been able to engage customers...
March 2017
Space is open for business
... asserted. Rainer Horn explained that while billionaires like Elon Musk attract other entrepreneurs into the game, this New Space is “very particular” in the way it motivates a unique type of personnel. “The talented staff is not...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... resulting data. With the aid of graphic processing units (GPUs) - 54 to be exact - originally designed for the video games industry, the Molongo inteferometer receives one petabyte (PB) of data a day (the equivalent of 200,000 DVDs a day...
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
... existed two decades ago? Before the USB, there were serial ports, parallel ports, DIN connectors, PS/2, game ports, and many others. USB is now a small, simple, and robust industry standard for the connection...
June 2018
Publish or perish: the astronomer’s dilemma
... that scientific quality may be sacrificed in order to meet the targets set by indicators. Goal displacement, gaming, information overload, questionable authorship practices, unhealthy competition and aversion to risky/innovative projects are a few...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... descent from the top of the martian atmosphere to its surface is not executed to perfection, then it is quite simply game over. Considering that only about 40 percent of the missions ever sent to Mars by any space agency have...
