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Measuring time is a crucial part of navigation – particularly in space, where exacting precision is called for. The DSAC is poised to make a change that will aid future deep space missions.
Just about anyone can get a tiny, cheap satellite into orbit these days. As we consider how to deploy them responsibly, inspiration comes from an amateur community of enthusiasts.
Why carry building materials from Earth into space, when we can build structures by 3D printing using materials found out there?
From inflatable space stations to trips to asteroids and maybe even Mars, the next decade of human spaceflight will include many exciting firsts.
It’s an ambitious plan to send a micro-spaceship to our stellar neighbour but is this possible with today’s technology or even technology in the near future?
Yes, it really is rocket science.
A US$100-million plan has been announced to send tiny probes out in space in search of life elsewhere in the universe. But are they looking in the right place?
We already have much of the technology we’d need to start a colony on another planet.
Missions including ExoMars, Juno and Rosetta could make some major discoveries in 2016.
Time to salute the monkeys, dogs and ducks that went before us.
Dawn’s mission director and chief engineer describes his ‘dream come true’ job – and how the new data coming back from Ceres could unlock some of the secrets of the earliest days of our solar system.
The alternate reality visualised in Star Wars is now potentially much closer to home.
Cheap, affordable space travel would be revolutionary. Chances are, when it comes, it won’t rely on the brute force approach of rockets.
Hollywood may already have done it but when we eventually send real astronauts to Mars, what medicines should we arm them with? And will they work the same way as they do on Earth?
The Martian is a rare film that seeks to use science to enhance the plot, and gives a sense of the splendour of the Red Planet.
A giant golden mirror is on the brink of opening up a glimpse of the very first galaxies to be formed.
New research provides a compact but powerful way for Mars rovers to communicate directly with Earth via an array of smaller antenna elements, bypassing the need for an intermediary.
Plants on the International Space Station must figure out how to grow in a completely novel environment. Their adaptability hints at how they’ll react to changes here on Earth – or in future space outposts.
Imagine if you could build a home on the moon out of moon dust. That just one of the possibilities being explored for 3D printing.
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science and Planetary Exploration, University of Stirling
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Emeritus Professor of International Law, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Astronomy, Nottingham Trent University
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Researcher, Air and Space Law, McGill University
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Professor of Planetary Science, University of Leicester
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Senior Lecturer in Space Systems Engineering, University of Glasgow
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Research Fellow/Reader in Planetary Physics, Lancaster University
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Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria and Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne, Museums Victoria Research Institute
