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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From post-humanity to fractals: is human space exploration doomed?

Opinion

Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation

Astronautics

India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship

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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

1 – Astronaut Gene Cernan test-drives the stripped down LRV-3 on the Apollo 17 mission. Lounge

Apollo lunar rover - the Lego version