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July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... together firmly but can be separated. This accuracy is confirmed when one builds a module with rotating arms that, when mated with an existing module, swing through 90 degrees to snap firmly into position. ... for commercial, lack-of-saleability reasons). It could, however, be time to consider that icon of human space travel, the Space Shuttle, as it drifts further into the mists of history and rose-tinted recollection. About the author Mark...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... were in part deliberate covers for developing essential military space technologies such as more capable missiles, nuclear warheads and spy satellites. The US Space Shuttle was in part originally designed and funded to meet ... warfare and counterinsurgency on Earth, for developed and developing states and their armed forces alike. Plugging space technologies into terrestrial military power ensures that there are sound strategic reasons for...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...Only a few reported on its successor, the X-37 spaceplane. In effect, the secret shuttle flights marked the normalisation of military space. Romantic adventure that spaceflight might be, those in authority reached the view - accurately it ... Brothers, 1983) unmistakeably reflected the US government and media portrayal of early space as ‘peaceful purposes’. The Space Shuttle had its own dedicated west coast military base, Vandenberg Air Force Base. ...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... spectacular launch failures. The rocket equation for chemical rockets results in only a small payload fraction. The space shuttle carried only one train-wagon-equivalent payload to LEO, around 27.5 metric tons (mt), or 1.4 percent of total...eventually hit it. This danger is as real as a speck of paint almost taking out the window of the space shuttle! The risks of debris, large and small, and the possible responses are complex [19] and beyond this...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
...sparse, and states have been unwilling to deploy these technologies as verification mechanisms outside the context of arms control. As a result, there is little law governing how states can or should use remote ...Mississippi School of Law, and his courses at the University of North Dakota include space law, history of the space age, space politics & policy, space & the environment, and remote sensing law & regulation. He has been a contributor...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... of heatshield, materials from a Mercury spacecraft, and several types of thermal protection tiles used in the Space Shuttle programme. For a space-nut like me, it was heaven. The big crate had my heart pounding. It stood nearly as..., materials from a Mercury spacecraft, and several types of thermal protection tiles used in the Space Shuttle programme. However, the big items like the LM descent engine would require a specially constructed case...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... flake travelling in excess of 17,500 miles per hour is significant, as shown by craters observed in Space Shuttle windows. Whilst larger assets such as the ISS have Whipple shielding to provide a measure of protection from... Case study One notable space asset within the space heritage discussion is the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Launched in 1988 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, it is clear that the venerable space telescope has a limited future...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
...from its extraordinary potential as a blossoming commercial enterprise, there may be some good existential reasons why commercial space, in particular space tourism, may be an important link in humanity’s long-term survival. An immediate benefit of increasing the..., the vaster our database about the range of the human reaction, and the better armed we are to tackle the mission of making humanity a multi-planet species. Before the new century fades ...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... the strategic (and potential military) advantages to be gained through space-related technology and we appear to be locked into a true ‘space arms race’. It is within the realms of reality that outer space may itself become an emerging theatre of warfare. The situation...
