GNOSIS
THE GLOBAL NETWORK ON SUSTAINABILITY IN SPACE
We bring together scientists and industry to understand and solve problems related to the ever growing problem of space debris and the challenges of safeguarding spacecraft set to launch into this environment.
To succeed in achieving
Sustainability in Space
Requires an understanding the nature of space debris and the application of law to the space environment. Through a cross disciplinary approach we aim to bring together teams of scientists and expose them to the problems faced by industry and help them apply their knowledge in tackling problems associated with space debris.
Learn more about the problem of space debris.
What GNOSIS does
GNOSIS organises thematic meetings and “jargon busting” workshops to facilitate discussions aimed at bringing scientists and industry together. It also provides seed funding for joint projects and in more advanced cases, provides part funding for graduate students.
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Blog
The Space Debris issue is often compared to the Great Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, a swirling vortex of…
The UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from 1 – 12…
Is It Time For Global Space Traffic Control? As the space environment surrounding Earth becomes increasingly congested, the issue of…
Social media
#SpaceDebris
The @SGACSpaceLaw US Taskforce is hosting a new webinar series encouraging discussion of the following question(s): how do we encourage and include diverse perspectives, experiences, and approaches from industry, academia, and government to address the #SpaceDebris crisis?
(For clarity, I can’t remember what I actually proposed in that paper… only that it was about #spacedebris… it’s been almost four years 😅)
Our new paper on robotic grasping for #spacedebris removal is out! We study how robot grasp stability can be applied for capturing a spent rocket stage, with experimental results. Kudos to my co-authors, Dr Zhou Hao and Prof. Yang Gao. #SpaceRobotics @FAIR_SPACE_Hub
#SpaceWeather
Geoelectric field maps of the UK from four large geomagnetic storms derived from thin-sheet model https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/c4cc72c2-0250-3192-e054-002128a47908 | BGS release of ASCII matrix data for four storms, from a NERC-funded project: Space Weather Impacts on Grounded Systems (SWIGS) | #spaceweather #opendata
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SF 75/Ap 7/Kp 2/Spots 12 06/17/2021/#Solar Wind 411 km/s Bz: 2021 Jun 18 1229Z at 2.3 nT (2021061812350206) #spaceweather #suninfo #ARRL #spaceweather #spacewx #hamr #swl
#SpaceJunk
@WarInstitute @NATO @thejointstaff @ENERGY @TaiwanPresSPOX It’s said that certain #mircrobes can erode concrete at accelerated paces, so if you don’t want to use traditional warfare, use alternative germination
Also who’s to say #spacejunk facades cannot be of use?
So take that model to attack foreign 🛰
Notdebris makes debris
🚀 SPACE
The Growing Problem Of Taking Out The Orbital Trash - #SpaceJunk
A Space Age “tragedy of the commons” is unfolding right under our nose—or, really, right over our head—and no consensus yet exists on how to stop it (long read) via @sciam
#space
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-junk-removal-is-not-going-smoothly/
🚀 SPACE JUNK International Space Station robotic arm struck by #SpaceJunk.
- “There’s a lot of stuff out there". @NASA says there are currently more than 27,000 larger than an average-sized cellphone in lower Earth orbit, traveling at over 17,500mph.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/01/international-space-station-robotic-arm-space-junk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other