March 2019
Urgent action needed to avert space debris threat
As of late 2018 the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) reported that there were 4,857 satellites in orbit, representing an increase of 4.79 percent compared to 2017. The fact is that space is ...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
...leave the ‘cradle’. The United Nations Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, released in March 2019...economy in trillions of dollars. Morgan Stanley, for example, reported in July 2019 that the revenue generated by the global...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
...country has been exempt from these technological trends. When American special forces raided the compound used by Osama bin Laden in... even further by placing a premium on the use of special forces and cyber warfare. Even then, however, Middle East...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... shield and parachutes to bring its celestial burden safely through our atmosphere and back to Earth. Analysed in a specially prepared curation facility back at JAXA’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences, this cargo may be a snapshot of the...
October 2015
Green cosmonautics: an ideal to strive for
.... - P. 60-65. 2: V.M. Petrov: The laws of development of technical systems // Methodology and methods of technical creativity. Theses of the reports and messages to the scientific and applied conference on 30 June - 2 July 1984 - Novosibirsk, 1984...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
..., however, be obtained from a review of the success rates observed in the recent past. ESA experts regularly report on the global achievements in post mission disposal. This information is gathered from the automated analysis of surveillance data...
