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

Sowing a new dream

Astronautics

Key technologies for space exploration

Opinion

Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history

Humanity – the potential of space

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.