Space

[New] In another first for Mars exploration, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) will send a Super Hi-Vision Camera to the red planet aboard JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration mission, scheduled for launch in 2024.
[New] Demand for office space in central areas is rising - 70% of respondents surveyed by the British Office Council indicated that they expect the demand for city centre locations to rise over the next decade.
The Introduction to Python for Space Exploration module contains eight units and offers background on NASA's Artemis lunar exploration program, which aims to land the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2024.
Polar bears in 12 of 13 subpopulations analysed will have been decimated within 80 years by the galloping pace of change in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the planet as a whole.
If everyone had access to sufficient green space, the benefits associated with increased physical activity could save the health system at least £2.1 billion per year.
The Vulcan Centaur will replace the Delta 4 and the Atlas 5 - ULA's other rocket family - to haul U.S. military payloads, NASA science probes, and commercial satellites into space.
The next generation of Global Xpress with the first satellite scheduled to launch in H1 2023, once again provides ground-breaking innovation to anticipate and match accelerating worldwide demand for government mobile connectivity.
ected in the event ofTwo-thirds of satellites orbiting the earth are dead and pose a serious threat to the planet.
As we enter into a historic decade of action to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 and address climate change, business has a critical role to play in environmental stewardship of our planet.
The planet will continue to feel even smaller in 2030 as more people are able to communicate over the internet (90% of the world population will be able to read; 75% will have mobile connectivity; 60% should have broadband access), they will also move more.
The areas where humans can barely survive today, which today cover about 1% of surface of our planet, will grow to about 20% within the next 50 years, with about 200 million climate migrants estimated by 2050.
With new laser facilities coming online next year, NASA plans to beam messages up and down from Earth using infrared lasers, vastly improving the space agency's bandwidth.
With more and more institutional investors recognising the long-term risks of climate change, for both people and the planet, the IIGCC's Framework looks to lead the way in achieving a net-zero economy by 2050.
Although SpaceX just flew its first astronauts into space and plans to begin private spaceflights on Crew Dragon next year, Musk is looking ahead to Starship and its capability to fly dozens of people at a time into low-Earth orbit and beyond.
The IoT space is primed for growth: the global IoT market is expected to grow to an astonishing value of $1256.1 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 10.53 between 2020 and 2025.
A $350 billion annual investment in climate solutions would unlock $4.5 trillion in new business opportunities and save $5.7 trillion of damage to people and the planet by 2030.
The European Space Agency is preparing to select two companies to build the second generation of Galileo navigation satellites under contracts to be signed in early 2021.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Anasis 2, or KMilSatCom 1, a communications satellite for the South Korean military, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Climate change represents an unprecedented challenge to the planet, and the financial services industry has a significant role to play if we are to meet the UK's target of net zero by 2050.
With a constellation of over 400 satellites already orbiting the earth and plans to put 40,000 more into space, Starlink has potential to provide net access well outside the control of national governments worldwide.
China and Russia present the most immediate and serious threats to U.S. space operations as they develop counterspace capabilities - which may disrupt, degrade or destroy space systems - and have military doctrines that view space as import to modern warfare.
The United States and its allies and partners will launch vast commercial satellite constellations over the coming years, as will China, creating common economic incentives for keeping satellite interference from becoming routine.
As an effort to strengthen its military power in space, South Korea is promoting a three-stage space development program dubbed Space Odyssey, which aims to build satellite and surveillance systems and deterrence power by 2050, to protect the military's space forces.

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Last updated: 20 September 2020