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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Astronautics

Asgardia’s calendar and its role in space industrialisation strategy

Specials

Lessons from our first race to the Moon

Astronautics

Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration

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Futuristic scenario showing robotic assembly in Earth orbit of an orbiting space telescope. Astronautics

Robotics is the future of space labour

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