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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Astronautics

Saving geostationary orbit

Environment

European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection

Opinion

Eyes on the prize

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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

Portrait of astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center, Ellen Ochoa who in 1993 became the first Latina woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Lounge

Art, imagination and the human spirit