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April 2024
Unlocking the NewSpace economy through space-based solar power
... to be performed with semi-autonomous robots, operating on a ‘human by exception’ basis - the time lag would make teleoperations incredibly difficult. Training these artificial intelligence (AI)systems will require virtual training...upon. The first one would be instrumenting the OTVs - what else could they do as they journey through space, back and forth to the construction site? Sensors could be mounted on the OTVs to collect information about, ...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
...exists, small companies and organisations can participate in space without significant pain and on an accelerated time scale, and the model has potential cost and schedule benefits even for large companies, governments and space agencies. The ...experiencing its ‘faster, better, cheaper’ moment. Unlike the IT industry, however, the journey of any company planning to enter the small satellite market or develop operations will include extensive ...
October 2024
Revolutionising space medicine and global health through virtual and augmented reality
... to describe the convergence of physical and virtual space accessed through computers and enabled by immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR). It has the potential to transform and reshape our approach to healthcare, both on Earth and in space, as human exploration expands...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
...the wonderful world of fine art quilting! As a point of reflection and to highlight another first in the interaction between space and art, during her International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 37 mission in 2013, astronaut Karen Nyberg ...our fascination with our nearest planetary neighbour since the dawn of time through to the Apollo moon walks and beyond. Both well-known and new fibre artists have stretched their creative muscles to draw the...
August 2021
Born to juggle in space
... never changes, even though I and the lights are rotating. Through this controlled illumination, I offer you further passage into my world. Space juggling apparatus during ideation phase and a conceptual drawing made after discussion...we toss a ball to our children or with which we paint our movement ideas with objects through space and time. Space Juggling trajectory tracking. Parting thoughts Juggling is nearly 4,000 years old, one of the oldest ...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... such as more capable missiles, nuclear warheads and spy satellites. The US Space Shuttle was in part originally designed and funded to meet the Pentagon’s and the Intelligence Community’s needs. The Hubble Space Telescope is an adapted KH-11 spy satellite that simply looks...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
...twenty-first century. Surrounded by stars - this starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21 (also known as Palomar...again”. Moreover, the steps to be taken to get our Earth out of its ecological ruts and environmental crises seem at times greater, and more difficult to take, than those taken half a century ago to achieve a foothold on the...
May 2024
Prioritising space solutions to accelerate sustainable development
... Peru’s example. The UN is a champion of sustainable development and we are halfway through our journey to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but they still... difficult to conclude. We need a multilateral process and as much collaboration as possible, because delivering a binding treaty at a time of global tensions and international rivalry in space will be contentious and take time. We have to be realistic - an agreement ...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
...spaces and separation anxiety, may reactivate certain zoster viruses that cause herpes, shingles and even chickenpox. Such viral reactivation is of course detrimental to the overall health of a population of whatever size, and may spread through... space, or the risk of a virus piggybacking on objects or personnel returning from space. Either scenario may cripple costly space missions for indefinite periods of time, and if proved fatal and ...
