Professor of Space Environment Physics, University of Reading
Mike Lockwood is a Professor of space environment physics at the University of Reading. After completing his PhD in ionospheric physics at Exeter University, UK, he studied the aurora using the EISCAT radars in northern Scandinavia and a wide variety of ESA and NASA speacecraft. He has also investigated space weather effects on humankind's operation systems and the effects of radiation on humans in space. He has determined the long-term variability of the Sun and helped define the implications for space weather and its relevance to Earth's tropospheric climate.

Boom in space tourism threatens to boost the amounts of space junk and climate emissions
Nov 08, 2023 12:04 pm UTC| Business
Commercial companies are increasingly becoming involved in transporting astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), as well as other activities in orbit. Some, such as Houston-based Axiom Space, eventually want to...