Tagged: space age

Earth’s artificial rings - Out of Space

Duncan Steel • Nov 20, 2019 •

• CubeSats,
• Earth observation satellites,
• Low Earth orbit,
• satellites,
• space age,
• Space debris

[avatar user=”duncansteel” size=”thumbnail” align=”right” /] Satellites pass over NZ all the time (literally). Here I focus on the 187 Planet Labs ‘Dove’ Earth-imaging satellites, and I show that one can determine in advance where they will be, enabling scientists on the ground to correlate their environmental and other data collection with opportunities to get imaging from space. That is, we … Read More

60 years in orbit for ‘grapefruit satellite’ – the oldest human object in space - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 22, 2018 •

• archaeology,
• Australia,
• explorer 1,
• infinity,
• Satellite,
• space,
• space age,
• sputnik 2,
• thermosphere,
• vanguard 1

Alice Gorman, Flinders University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Sixty years ago, a grapefruit-sized aluminium sphere with six antennas and some tiny solar cells was launched into Earth orbit. The Vanguard 1 satellite is still up there and is the oldest human-made object in space. It’s our first … Read More