On the World Science Day for Peace and Development I’d like to share with you my modest experience doing industry-based science. At first sight it might seem odd that a profit-seeking company could be a source of science and a…
All planned exploration missions to the Moon and beyond rely on autonomous components. Landing on the Moon, Mars and asteroids, rendezvousing and docking in space and surface exploration rovers without human control are all necessary to make these future missions…
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), and especially GPS, have been widely taken up today as the main positioning method for users of all types. The use of GNSS for event synchronization and timestamping, however, is not so familiar to…
The threat posed by space debris to operational satellites is becoming a serious problem. Currently there are nearly 20,000 catalogued objects larger than 10cm in LEO and 1m in GEO and more than twice as many smaller fragments down to…
Environmental protection, the optimization of natural resources, minimization of waste and the reduction of pollution are the responsibility of the whole society. Above all, it is an individual responsibility, backed up by the right laws and involving all sectors. The…