Issue #2(2) 2014 Lounge

The vanity of machines

Me too – Curiosity Mars rover’s selfie at the ‘Windjana’ drilling site. Curiosity has accomplished its main goal by confirming that Mars once possessed conditions favourable for microbial life

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Life in the Sun’s atmosphere - the looming threat of solar storms

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Flying to the stars

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Settling the final frontier

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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

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