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

Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme

Astronautics

South Korea’s rising rocket star

Opinion

Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?

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Europe’s Spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana. Although France has no space-specific tax regime, companies operating from French Guiana can benefit from enhanced research tax credits, illustrating how taxation is already influencing the commercial space sector. Astronautics

Who taxes space? - new challenges for the space economy

Space agencies and the armed forces are susceptible to conspiracy theories, largely due to the perceived lack of transparency concerning their activities. Above: Major Jesse A. Marcel holds a piece of foil-lined material related to the Roswell, New Mexico, UFO incident at Fort Worth Army Airfield, 8 July 1947 (Photo: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections Division). Astronautics

Winning the Space Race at home