By Chris Lavers Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), a developer of microspace missions for over 21 years, has announced a new line of high-performance, low-cost CubeSat buses. The 3U (“THUNDER”), 6U (“SPARTAN”) and 12U/16U (“JAEGER”) CubeSats complement SFL’s legacy suite…
In the framework of the MA programme in Applied Strategy and International Security, Dr Fotios Moustakis, Associate Professor in Strategic Studies and Director of Dartmouth Centre for Sea Power and Strategy, in collaboration with the Hellenic National Defence College, organised…
DR CHRISTOPHER LAVERS, a Plymouth University at BRNC Engineering Faculty member, has just started a Visiting Fellowship at the Changing Character of War Centre, Pembroke College Oxford, successful against strong global competition. Chris obtained approval for his research proposal Comparative…
By Chris Lavers The US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory has just announced funding for a new round of off-road autonomy research under the Scalable Adaptive and Resilient Autonomy (SARA) programme. Under this partnered research programme…
In the long tradition of Hollywood disaster movies it has often fallen to the United States Navy to rally the final defensive line, or provide the rescue platform solution to one of the world’s impending Apocalypses, with a long line…
By Chris Lavers * In recent weeks there has been a lot of television and internet footage of widespread Chinese drone use in a range of COVID-19 related applications. Many have seen YouTube video footage [1] showing food and vegetables,…
By Christopher Lavers Crude oils, fuels and petroleum derivatives and their decay products clearly adversely impact earth’s natural environment. It is now almost exactly a decade on from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010, yet recent published research…
Α decade on, are there lessons to be learned from Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull’s eruption and past SARS infections to predict the scale of COVID-19’s global impact? As of 9th March 2020 NATO has confirmed that one NATO staff member working at…
The Dartmouth Centre for Seapower and Strategy (DCSS) at University of Plymouth and the NATO Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM) co-hosted the Third MARCOM-DCSS Sea Power Conference at Warren House, Kingston-Upon- Thames, Surrey UK on Monday, 10 February 2020. The Conference…
The United Kingdom military is taking the threat posed by space weather extremely seriously. The up and coming “Military Space Situational Awareness Conference 2020”, in London (UK), 29-30 April, organised by the MOD and the Air and Space Power Association,…