DART

NASA’s Hubble Spots Twin Tails in New Image After DART Impact

wo tails of dust ejected from the Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system are seen in new images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, documenting the lingering aftermath of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impact. The DART spacecraft impacted Dimorphos, a small moonlet of Didymos, on Sept. 26 in a planetary defense test to change Dimorphos’ orbit by crashing into it.…

Webinar on Artificial Intelligence as a new tool for Space Architecture

We organize together with Mars City Design 18 October, 20:30 CET a webinar on Artificial Intelligence as a new tool for Space Architecture. Speakers: Vittorio Netti, Vera Mulyani, Valentina Sumini, Sylve Truyman. The event is part of our research framework related to the future construction of habitats in Space. Registration: https://www.mars-city.org/seminar-registration/

Cybersecurity in Space

Space services used to be separated from networks on Earth, but this model has changed over the last few years, with the two becoming more and more interdependent. Space-based services support essential services such as military, utilities, aviation and emergency communications and therefore get drawn into geopolitical conflicts on Earth. This is why there needs…

Evolution of Mars Rovers

Twenty-five years ago that little robot, a six-wheeled rover named Sojourner, made it — becoming the first in a string of rovers built and operated by NASA to explore Mars. Four more NASA rovers, each more capable and complex than the last, have surveyed the Red Planet. The one named Curiosity marked its 10th year…

New Space

Opportunities in New Space

“New space” refers to the recent commercialisation of the space sector. While the state used to have a monopoly over the sector, private actors now play an increasingly important role, most notably companies like SpaceX and the so-called “GAFAs” (Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon). Furthermore, digital applications are dominated by ever fewer companies, most of…