If you need a high-tech surveillance system to monitor office workers and determine how efficient office space is being used—a system that can scan an employee’s desktop calendar as well as cameras in the elevators and, presumably, sensors in the office bathrooms, to track their movements—privacy will not be a priority. If you want one … Read more
It’s unlikely to happen, but if a large space object ever hit Earth, the outcome would be calamitous. Humanity needs to start preparing now. It’s a staple of disaster movies: a huge space rock hurtles toward Earth and the hero gloriously self-sacrifices in a nuclear fireball to save humankind. In reality, saving the planet from … Read more
India and Mexico have signed an agreement for capacity building in Space here. The patch was signed during the sixth round of Foreign Office Consultations held between India and Mexico here. According to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA): “A Specific Cooperation Agreement on cooperation in outer space focusing on crop monitoring, drought assessment and … Read more
The recent launch of South Korea’s first domestically developed rocket has given new impetus to the nation’s ambitions to develop new technologies to explore and exploit outer space. This week, the government announced that it intends to invest 800 billion won (€587 million) to develop Goheung, an island in the country’s south that serves as … Read more
The scheduled three-year review of the Outer Space and High-altitude Activities Act 2017 (OSHA) was completed recently and MBIE issued its report last month. The report can be found here. The report includes the findings of the industry consultation process that took place in August and September last year. The report finds that the OSHAA … Read more
Jane Bolden , Senior Content Director of Pop Culture @janeebolden Janeé Bolden is the Senior Content Director of Pop Culture at iOne Digital and manages editorial strategy for Bossip and GlobalGrind. Janeé joined the BOSSIP team as a Senior Editor in 2009 and has been working with GlobalGrind since 2017. As a veteran journalist, Janeé … Read more
An illustration of exoplanet Kepler-1649c. Image: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. China intends to find the first “Earth 2.0,” meaning a planet similar to Earth orbiting a Sun-like star, with a next-generation space observatory currently slated for launch by the end of 2026. … Read more
SINGAPORE – Five Nanyang Technological University (NTU) students have achieved the next best thing to being on the International Space Station (ISS) – their machine learning software is going up to the home of astronauts for three months later this year. They will be running the show from their laptops – testing the software, which … Read more
Spurred by a near miss, the world built an alert system to detect asteroids heading for Earth. But it’s not clear who would decide what to do next. On the morning of February 15, 2013, a research team in central Europe was preparing its final recommendations to a United Nations subcommittee on establishing an international … Read more
In the divided society we currently live in, you might wonder, what does anyone truly have in common? Though we all have differences, there’s one commonality that has prevailed for all of humanity: we are all floating on a rock, flying through outer space at over a million miles an hour. For years, humans have … Read more
