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March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
... acquaintance with 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 became the...
May 2025
Mythologies of Outer Space - A new perspective on the final frontier
... spacecraft, fulfilling a childhood dream. My career involved the exploration of both space and self, giving rise to my physical, mental and emotional limits. Thirsk warns against the unchecked commercialisation of space, questioning whether private companies will respect its environmental...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... domain, with official documents stating that the goal of space warfare and operations is to achieve superiority using both offensive and defensive means. Since early 2019, China and Russia have increased their in-orbit assets by 70 percent across all major...
February 2021
Cyber and Space – the role of the cyber-range
... the norms of acceptable behaviour towards the ‘offensive’ end of the spectrum. When we go on to consider the offensive-defensive balance in space and cyber, we find considerable asymmetry between the comparatively low cost of attacking versus the high cost of defence...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... uses of outer space, and the author of War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics and several papers on space policy in a variety of academic journals. Dr Bowen frequently appears in media items on space policy, writes a regular column for SpaceWatch Global, and advises practitioners on space security and defence policy in space.
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... of Leicester, an expert in strategy, space warfare and the military uses of outer space, and the author of War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics and several papers on space policy in a variety of academic journals. Dr Bowen frequently appears in media items on space policy and advises practitioners on space security and defence policy...
August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
... source of debate is not the activity itself but its surrounding legal framework. International space treaties include specific provisions on the use of outer space and on the cooperation of States in benefiting from the results of such use. Even though...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... the human species undertook to explore, or to conquer, what we are now used to calling ‘space’ (formerly known as ‘outer space’). And it is also not surprising that we have cherished this dream since the seventeenth century. Far from... the future (futur). Since the end of the Apollo programme astronauts have learned to live in space and prepare for future interplanetary expeditions all in the shadow of the Earth. About the author Jacques Arnould...
May 2024
Prioritising space solutions to accelerate sustainable development
...just a couple of months. Here she shares her thoughts on the future of space and asks what can be done to make better use of space to achieve policy objectives. As an integral part of the United Nations, the...achieve them, leveraging space solutions to do so. Space is not just an enabler of the SDGs, it is a major driver of them, and if that is the case the question I would ask is, are we proactively leveraging space and maximising it’s potential ...
