NASA Knocks Chinese Officials For Falling Debris
By: The Hill Date: 31 July, 2022 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is calling out China for failing to share information about debris from a rocket booster falling back to Earth. “All spacefaring nations should follow established best practices, and do their part to share this type of information in advance to allow reliable predictions of potential debris […]
Wait Begins For Falling 23-Ton Rocket Booster After China Space Station Launch
By: NY Times July 24, 2022 Another big Chinese rocket launched to space on Sunday at 2:22 p.m. Beijing time, and once again, no one knows where or when it will come down. It will be a replay of two earlier launches of the same rocket, the Long March 5B, which is one […]
A Chinese Satellite Seems to Have Collided With a Piece of a Russian Rocket in March — The First Big Space Crash in a Decade
By: Business Insider August 18, 2021 A Chinese satellite mysteriously broke apart in March, scattering into dozens of pieces. Now, a Harvard astronomer has discovered what likely happened: It seems to have collided with a chunk of a Russian rocket. “This looks to be the first major confirmed orbital collision in a decade,” […]
Crisp Insights into Digital Age ESG Developments – July 29, 2021
Biden Advisers Ride on Pegasus Spyware As the NSO-Pegasus saga continues to play out, the information in this article highlights two important governance concerns: The amount of investor capital that has gone into cleaning up NSO’s reputation is considerable and serves as a warning of companies that (especially repeatedly) had reputational issues. Moreover, […]
It’s Time for US to Get Serious About Cleaning up Space Junk
By: The Hill July 27, 2021 With Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos soaring into suborbital space, three U.S. flights to the International Space Station (ISS) in July, and SpaceX delivering 88 satellites to orbit in the last six weeks, space traffic is surging. And this is just the beginning of increased commercial and governmental activity in space. August […]
As Commercial Space Travel Becomes Reality, Debris and Space Traffic Management Becomes More Important
By: Associated Press July 22, 2021 With Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos soaring into suborbital space, three U.S. flights to the International Space Station (ISS) in July, and SpaceX delivering 88 satellites to orbit in the last six weeks, space traffic is surging. And this is just the beginning of increased commercial and governmental activity in space. August […]
NATO Launches €1bn Fund to Invest in War Startups
By: Sifted June 23, 2021 NATO is planning to harness the knowhow of startups to develop its next generation of war machines. The transatlantic defence alliance has announced that it is to launch a startup accelerator programme and a €1bn investment fund focused on deeptech startups. The disruptive technologies that NATO is interested […]
Pivot: Interview with Caleb Scharf on Space Exploration
By: Pivot June 15, 2021 Kara and Scott discuss how Apple unknowingly handed over phone data of two Democratic congressmen to the Trump Administration. Then, they discuss how the pay gap between workers and CEOs grew even wider during the pandemic. In Friend of Pivot, Caleb Scharf, the Director of Astrobiology at Columbia University and […]
New Effort To Clean Up Space Junk Reaches Orbit
By: NPR March 21, 2020 A demonstration mission to test an idea to clean up space debris launched Monday morning local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Known as ELSA-d, the mission will exhibit technology that could help capture space junk, the millions of pieces of orbital debris that float above Earth. The more […]