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July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... the space industry, space insurance and space education sectors. He is the author of six books, including The Cambridge Dictionary of Space Technology and Space: The Fragile Frontier, has edited three space industry magazines and ...written more than 600 articles and papers on space technology. He has a BSc in...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... companies that hope to commercialise space. In February 2019, a spacecraft launched by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) landed a spacecraft on the asteroid Ryugu following a three-and-a-half year journey. The previous month, China’s Chang’e 4 landed... economics, culture and law. She has degrees in law and physics and has written for magazines, radio and broadcast documentaries. She was recently the ‘in-house’ writer and researcher for London-...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... the community. Holly is on the advisory boards for global organisations such as Space Vault, Finsophy, and STEM for Women magazine. She also sits on the Space Economy Task Force in Austin, Texas. Jeff Smith is a Material Control Analyst...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...space and ‘civilian’ space, with an all-civilian space agency, NASA. The government and media portrayal of early space was unmistakably ‘peaceful purposes’: see the film The Right Stuff, read the US-published Colliers magazine... or Russia’s Teknika Molodezh, admire Mosfilm productions. No missiles there. At the same time, there was a parallel, typically obscured, track of military space development. The same ...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... around nearby worlds. Although we have planned extraordinary science, we cannot imagine the universe the James Webb Space Telescope is about to reveal. WST is not ‘Hubble’s Replacement’ but ‘Hubble’s Successor’, designed to ... had to deploy successfully to release the sunshield, which, thankfully, they did, during its one-month journey to its operation destination. Keeping the telescope cool is the primary motivation behind JWST’s remote location...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... a specific infrastructure, but this restoration may take weeks, months or sometimes even years. Amid more commonly known natural hazards, space weather is now recognised as a key natural hazard of ...is of high importance. Disaster severity is a function of four groups of critical factors: hazard characteristics, space asset characteristics, terrestrial infrastructure properties and exposure, as depicted in Fig. 2. In this sense, the availability...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
...communications, broadcasting, weather forecasting, navigation, medicine, security and remote sensing - to embrace space tourism, space mining, space-based solar power, and the future settlement on the Moon and Mars. Along with ...generate more debris as they collide in space. Over the past six months, international news media have carried regular stories on space security and the prospect of war in space which could affect operating satellites. For...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... in our night sky. A universal symbol, but also a temporary one as the object deorbited after a few months. Let’s make the effort to go for the complex but meaningful rather than for the simple yet...position for a philosopher, re-affirming its role as a multi-disciplinary think tank for the global space community. The Space Generation Advisory Council could initiate a project group dedicated to humanities in general, broadening the discussion among...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
.... Public outreach at the Canberra Space Centre. Open for business The empty shell I inherited now has over 70,000 visitors a year coming out to see it. Over the next few months the project came together. We built... an exhibit that had a storyline, telling visitors about the history of space exploration, from the origins of rocketry in China hundreds of years...
