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

Interstellar aspirations

Astronautics

A universal spaceship design concept

Opinion

From dependency to resilience - Europe’s moment in space traffic management

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ESA’s Space Surveillance Telescope in Tenerife is part of Europe’s sovereign space situational awareness infrastructure, contributing to conjunction warnings and orbital safety. Opinion

From dependency to resilience - Europe’s moment in space traffic management

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

Robotics is the future of space labour