The Space Economy is defined by the OECD as 'activities and use of space resources that create value and benefits for humanity in the course of exploring, researching, understanding, managing and utilizing space.' * The value of the Space Economy in the early 2020s was somewhere between $370...

Astronomers often have to deal with randomness. For example, stars and radiotelescopes are sources of randomness. On the other hand, randomly distributed stars in some astronomical images can make harder the task of an algorithm that aims the automatic identification of important structures in...

This essay is about my prior experiences as a rocket scientist on Apollo rocket engines, with comparison to my subsequent experiences at the Federal Reserve, and in academia, with emphasis upon differences in collaboration and scientific methodology. A primary difference is in the emphasis on...

RadioNet reflects the European radio astronomy community's commitment to closer cooperation among leading infrastructures as a means of intensifying and enhancing its research. Launched in 2004, the initiative has built sufficient momentum to establish itself as a coordination framework...