scholarly journals The Role of Incubators in the European New Space Economy

New Space ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-207
Author(s):  
Marc Abi-Fadel ◽  
Walter A.R. Peeters
Keyword(s):  
New Space ◽  
Space Economy

scholarly journals Investigation of a CubeSat in Orbit Anomaly through Verification on Ground

Aerospace ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Stesina ◽  
Sabrina Corpino
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Total Absence ◽  
New Space ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
Verification Test ◽  
Space Economy ◽  
Mission Operations

Given the role of Cubesats in the new space economy, a statistically relevant number of CubeSats have flown, and considering the high percentage of failed missions, the investigation of in-orbit anomalies becomes of paramount importance. It is rare to find data about mission failures, probably because the partial or total absence of telemetry does not encourage any analysis. The lack of data from the spacecraft in orbit can be mitigated through ad-hoc verification campaigns on satellite models when in-orbit anomalies are experienced. This paper shows an effective testing activity conducted on models of the spacecraft to understand the root cause of a severe anomaly that occurred during mission operations. The tests are part of a comprehensive methodology for root causes analysis. The paper aims at sharing the experience built upon a practical case of interest. More importantly, this work has the ambition of fostering the research on key topics of reliability, mission operations and assembly, and integration and verification/test processes, which have shown to be critical. The activity presented in this paper demonstrates that investigating the anomalies can help recover the mission of interest but can also support building a heritage that is still missing for CubeSat missions today.

Transfer or Translation? Rethinking Traveling Technologies from the Global South

2022 ◽  
pp. 016224392110722
Author(s):  
Miao Lu ◽  
Jack Linchuan Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Global South ◽  
First Century ◽  
Technical Approach ◽  
Narrow Focus ◽  
New Space ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Human Actors

Technology flows are becoming increasingly diverse in the twenty-first century, calling for an update of concepts and frameworks. Reflecting on the inherent tensions of technology transfer, including its technocratic dreams, insensitivity to technological materiality, and narrow focus on certain human actors, we propose technology translation as a complementary conceptual framework to understand traveling technologies. Taking a socio-technical approach, technology translation views artifacts as socially shaped with distributed agency, which makes technology flows unstable and unpredictable. In so doing, we develop a typology to explain five technology flow scenarios, shedding new light on the mechanisms of technology traveling by foregrounding the role of translators. Last, we discuss the politics of translation and elaborate how technology translation opens new space to engage with the complexity and uncertainty of technology flows, especially in the Global South.

scholarly journals Aporte Teórico-Metodologico para o Estudo da Pluviosidade em Ambientes Urbanos Vulneráveis: Estudo de Caso do Clima Urbano de Duque de Caxias/RJ (Theoretical and Methodological Rain for the Study of Vulnerable in Urban Environments: a Case Study of ...)

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 476
Author(s):  
Antonio Carlos Da Silva Oscar Júnior ◽  
Ana Maria De Paiva Macedo Brandão
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
New Space ◽  
New Research

Hodiernamente as ciências do tempo e do clima assumem protagonismo no meio cientifico devido às questões e polêmicas atuais acerca das mudanças climáticas. Tendo em vista esse novo espaço, esse trabalho tem como objetivo trazer uma contribuição teórico-metodologica para aqueles que desejam se debruçar sobre essas novas questões que afligem o mundo moderno. Para aprofundar as discussões deste artigo, abordaremos o caso de Duque de Caxias, localizado na Baixada Fluminense do Rio de Janeiro, usando a também como caso exemplo para explicar como as dinâmicas socioeconômicas, deixando suas marcas no território intensificam os riscos naturais e aprofundam as vulnerabilidades sociais. No aflorar dessa nova agenda de pesquisas é papel dos Geógrafos aprofundarem suas análises em prol de um ordenamento territorial, e gestão do espaço condizente com as novas necessidades da sociedade. Palavras-Chave: Clima Urbano, Mudanças Climáticas, Planejamento Urbano.  Theoretical and Methodological Rain for the Study of Vulnerable in Urban Environments: a Case Study of Urban Climate Duque de Caxias-RJ  ABSTRACT Today the sciences of weather and climate took center stage in the middle due to scientific issues and controversies about the current climate. In light of this new space, this work aims to bring a theoretical and methodological contributions for those Who wish to dwell on these new issues that plague the modern world. For further discussion of this article, we discuss the case of Duque de Caxias, located in the Baixada Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, also using as a case example to explain how socio-economic dynamics, leaving it’s mark in the territory of natural hazards intensify and deepen the vulnerabilities social. Flourishin this new research agenda is the role of geographers deepen their analysis in favor of a use and land management consistent with the changing needs of society.  Keywords: Urban Climate, Climate Change, Runoff, Urban Management

scholarly journals Networked Co-Curation: An Exploration of the Socio-Technical Specificities of Online Curation

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Annet Dekker ◽  
Gaia Tedone
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Operational Process ◽  
Current State ◽  
New Space ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
The Web

Online curation is shaped and defined not merely by its content, but just as much by the nature of the structure and the systems that are used by curators and artists. It could be argued that this applies to any medium, but as this essay will show, the Web profoundly influences the role of the curator in new ways. In this paper we show how curation on the Web is not merely concerned with presenting art, but that curation functions within a wider ecology of social and technical power relations. This shift is characterized by a collision of different interests driven by economic, cultural, and socio-political agendas, and can be framed as a new space of performativity: signaling a move from curating a set of objects to a conceptual and operational process that puts different constellations of human and machinic agents, objects and practices into relation with one another. This means that a curator needs to take into account a complex interrelated network of dependencies and contexts that are often invisible or incomprehensible to most people. In such a scenario online curation becomes ‘networked co-curation’ and shifts the attention from what is produced to how it is performed under the socio-technical conditions and relations that characterize the current state of the Web.

scholarly journals Geographies of field-configuring events

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bastian Lange ◽  
Dominic Power ◽  
Lech Suwala
Keyword(s):  
Economic Geography ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Field Configuration ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Common Lines ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
Space Economy ◽  
Industrial Standards ◽  
Trade Shows

AbstractThis paper treats the concept of ‘field-configuring events’ (FCE) and relates it to economic geographical research. The FCE approach attempts to draw attention to the role of events in fields of economic and social action and suggests that events can be important to introducing, structuring, maintaining and configuring new products, industrial standards, cultural artefacts and knowledge categories. The FCE approach has primarily been used to study the actors and networks associated with events such as trade shows, professional gatherings, technology contests, cultural tournaments, industrial exhibitions and business ceremonies: events where actors assemble to reveal novel products, develop industry designs, initiate cultural trends, create social networks, and allocate meaning to previously unfamiliar circumstances. In this introductory paper, we identify the main research trajectories in FCE and link these to economic geography by identifying some common lines of thinking apparent in economic geography, management and organisational studies. The paper moves on to investigate the nature of the “field”, “configuration” and “events” from a geographic perspective, and to emphasize the role that space and power play as a structuring mechanisms in all three. We conclude that the FCE approach can function as a useful tool for geographical analysis of the increasing fluid and episodic contours of the contemporary space economy.

scholarly journals Processes in the magnetized chromosphere of the Sun

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (S257) ◽  
pp. 121-131
Author(s):  
S. S. Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Large Field ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Flux Tubes ◽  
Weak Magnetic Fields ◽  
Space Experiments ◽  
New Space ◽  
Magnetic Network

AbstractWe review physical processes in magnetized chromospheres on the Sun. In the quiet chromosphere, it is useful to distinguish between the magnetic network on the boundaries of supergranules, where strong magnetic fields are organized in mainly vertical flux tubes and internetwork regions in the cell interiors, which have traditionally been associated with weak magnetic fields. Recent observations from Hinode, however, suggest that there is a significant amount of horizontal magnetic flux in the cell interior with large field strength. Furthermore, processes that heat the magnetic network have not been fully identified. Is the network heated by wave dissipation and if so, what is the nature of these waves? These and other aspects related to the role of spicules will also be highlighted. A critical assessment will be made on the challenges facing theory and observations, particularly in light of the new space experiments and the planned ground facilities.

Myanmar civil society will complicate China relations

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
Standing Position ◽  
The West ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Development Partner ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
New Space ◽  
Malacca Strait

Subject The role of civil society in China-Myanmar relations. Significance Myanmar's political transition, following the 2010 and 2015 elections, provides new space and opportunities for civil society, challenging China's long-standing position as the country's most important foreign partner. Impacts Lack of skills to engage with civil society in Myanmar will jeopardise China's status as an economic and development partner. Civil society in Myanmar could look towards the West, in particular the United States, for support -- not China. Myanmar has strategic potential as a land-based energy supply route that avoids the Malacca Strait. Rapid economic growth will eventually make Myanmar a market for China as well as supplier of resources. Nonetheless, Myanmar's government will not shun China: its support will be useful in the ethnic ceasefire effort.

scholarly journals Will Decline in Foreign Trade Reshape Internal Economic Geography? Simulations in an Estimated Model of the Chinese Space-economy

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Qiliang Mao ◽  
Fei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Spatial Pattern ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Industry Data ◽  
Space Economy ◽  
Parameter Values

This study evaluates the role of decline in foreign trade in shaping China’s internal economic Geography. In a first step, we develop a multi-region multi-industry economic geography model under Cournot competition, of which we estimate the parameter values from real regional and industry data to obtain a predictable model. Next, we set some scenarios reflecting a decline in export to simulate the evolution of industrial spatial pattern. The simulations indicate the evident impact of decreasing export on the spatial distribution of industries; besides, the degree of influence varies across different industries. Moreover, the decline in export of one industry not only influences its own location, but also the location of the forward or backward-linked industries. However, the general spatial pattern, observed after policy reforms and trade liberalization, will not be reversed due to export recession in China.

scholarly journals Governing the New Space Economy

2016 ◽  
pp. 159-176
Author(s):  
Joseph N. Pelton
Keyword(s):  
New Space ◽  
Space Economy
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