Issue #2(2) 2014 Lounge

The vanity of machines

I was here – Rosetta’s self-portrait as it passes Mars, one of four planetary gravity assists needed to boost the spacecraft onto the trajectory to meet its target, comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

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Environment

Beware the situation: how JSpOC tracks space debris

Lounge

Creating the ‘Space for Art Foundation’

Security

URBOCOP: saving planet Earth

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Opinion

Spaceflight and the radiation problem

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