Issue #2(2) 2014 Lounge

The vanity of machines

Ready for the big event – Rosetta mission selfie taken on 7 October at a distance of about 16 km from its target comet

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Long-term spaceflight and microbiological safety issues

Autonomous robots in space

Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system

ROOM, Space Magazine Cover

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The central object in a spiral galaxy is, conventionally, a super-massive black hole, surrounded by an accretion dish.

Science

An alternative model for pulsars and spiral galaxies

Operators who view space primarily as infrastructure, a functional zone for communications or defence, tend to see debris as an operational risk rather than a symptom of an extractive system.

Astronautics

The imagined sky – power, inequality and the future of space sustainability