Last year, a survey by NASA of American industrial
and government satellite makers
and programme managers identified a number of other factors that make life more difficult for mechanical engineers in the space
industry.
As
governments,
industry and civil society struggle to achieve the necessary emission reductions to address climate change, scientists are increasingly looking at new technological pathways such as direct carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, solar geoengineering (cooling the planet by reflecting heat away from the Earth)
and the use of sophisticated
satellite technologies capable of...