Today marks the 57th anniversary when Ham became the first chimpanzee in space. I want to take this opportunity to look back at the involvement of animals in the space industry. As early as 1948, animals were deployed on space
Last week, Earth-i had successfully launched a prototype of a new commercial satellite. The British company had developed what is to be the world’s first full-color and full-motion video satellite constellation, Vivid-i. The constellation will provide high-resolution images and full-color
Oman is in the process of designing and building a satellite to be launched in 2019. The satellite’s main purpose is to detect areas with high occurrence of light pollution. Light pollution is a phenomenon created through the heavy presence of
Last week, Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai said in a tweet that he grew nine centimeters taller after his arrival at the International Space Station (ISS) about a month ago. While the claim was a slight miscalculation (his growth spurt was
Within 12 years, from 2005 to 2017, more than one-third of the world’s population or around 3.5 billion people have access to the Internet. That is an increase from just over 1 billion people previously. The number is expected to
Everyone has someone they look up to and for many, John Young was that person; an inspirational figure, a hero and a pioneer. From his recent passing, I would like to take time to reflect on his accomplishments and why
