🛰 Space
☄️ 30 years since the first asteroid encounter – this is what you need to know
2021 marked the 30th anniversary of the first encounter with an asteroid. It opened the path for an entirely new field of research and projects. Despite the impressive progress made, science and technology still are at the very beginning of what asteroids have to...
🛰 Military project brings us closer to space-based solar energy
The climate crisis is a looming threat that most countries and many companies are trying to solve through a plethora of different measures. A perhaps surprising proponent of renewables is the United States military. On December 21, The Air Force Research Laboratory...
☀ NASA’s Parker probe has penetrated the solar atmosphere
On December 14, NASA announced that the Parker Solar Probe had flown through the sun's upper atmosphere, thus becoming the first ever to do so. As the sun lacks a solid surface, this has been referred to as "touching" the sun.The event happened on April...
🛰 Satellites can measure the carbon emissions of each country
To achieve the Paris Agreement's 1.5-degree target, the countries of the world must reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. One of the many challenges here is knowing exactly how big a country's emissions are.Today, countries use activity data such as energy...
