China’s Tiangong-1 space station is hurtling around Earth out of control and about to come crashing down. It’s just one of thousands of pieces of space junk left orbiting our planet.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Satellites
Displaying 141 - 160 of 213 articles
By expanding our understanding of streets and enhancing their design, every street corner could become a space to socialise, to exercise, to play, or to trade.
When Vanguard 1 – the “grapefruit satellite” – was launched in 1958, its only companions were Explorer 1 and Sputnik 2. Soon it may have thousands of descendants swarming around it.
Big data open-access publishing and other advances offer ecologists the ability to forecast events like pest outbreaks over days and seasons rather than decades. But scholars need to seize this opportunity.
Several satellites have been launched in recent years with the objective of measuring data related to climate change. They must be complementary to measurements made on earth.
Space is becoming cheaper, more attractive to investors and increasingly important in our data-rich economy. It’s time Australia mapped a path forward.
Australia is playing a major role in developing legal guidelines that would govern how any war in space is played out. The authors of MILAMOS hope the manual is never actually required.
By taking on the role as leader in space traffic management, Australia can gain international power and exploit commercial opportunities.
A strange patch of extremely strong magnetic field occurred over Jordan in 1000BC. Could we be about to face another one?
New data from a NASA satellite show in unprecedented detail the flow of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Future satellites should even be able to detect the signatures of individual power stations.
A new approach to monitor changes to the earth’s surface uses maps that consist of physical and human geographic data to explain what’s changed.
We’ve all seen videos of satellites being blasted off into space - but once they’re locked in orbit around the earth, how do we bring them back down?
Our fascination with space shows no signs of slowing down, 60 years after the Soviet Union launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik.
Telecom operators increasingly struggle to find “parking spots” for their satellites in outer space.
Australia’s space sector responded positively to today’s federal government commitment to a space agency. Our experts explain what must come next.
Protecting culturally significant spacecraft enables people on Earth to feel connected to space as the common heritage of humanity.
Weather forecasting, bushfire management, power and water supply: Australia relies on earth observations to the tune of A$5 billion a year. But we have very little control over the data we get.
There are local, practical implications linked to failed advancement of infrastructure projects that rely on expertise in space. Protecting Australia’s water is just one example.
It promises to be one of the brightest objects in the night sky once the Mayak satellite unfolds a giant pyramid reflector. But what is it going to do?
We don’t need another review of Australia’s space industry, we just need a space agency.
Top contributors
-
Andrew Dempster is a Friend of The Conversation.Director, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research; Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Sydney
-
Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University
-
Associate professor, Astronomy, University of Regina
-
PhD candidate, law and military uses of outer space, University of Adelaide
-
Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia
-
Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
-
University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
-
Scientific Officer, Obafemi Awolowo University
-
Associate Professor, RMIT University
-
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Law, University College Dublin
-
Chair, Australian Centre for Space Governance, Australian National University
-
Space Plasma Physicist, Imperial College London
-
Emeritus Professor of International Law, Western Sydney University
-
Associate Professor of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
-
Professor (Digital Technology, Security and Governance), Flinders University
