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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
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...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... problem and... therefore, only subject to a political solution. Without supportive political action to develop the law of space, space lawyers are reduced to the 20th century version of arguing the number of angels that can sit on the...science, 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-based...
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 build on... expanding, swelling like a giant balloon. Everything is moving further away from everything else - the space between galaxies is stretching, increasing year on year. Combined with the finite speed of light this ...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
...the spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve1968. Nothing compares to the actual experience of being in outer space. Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison ‘Jack’ Schmitt’s biggest regret is that he couldn’t have stayed longer on... 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 ...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
...by children at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center that were then beautifully quilted together by space suit manufacturer ILC Dover. HOPE was invited to participate in a display at the 2016 International Quilt ...when we make those first steps on Mars we will be wearing space suits. As we’ve seen, space suits designed for use in space have inspired space suit art, but they have also inspired fashion designers to think differently...
August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
... Using for example Variational Autoencoders (VAE), we can model the variations of the appearance of a particular space object or a class of space objects. We can also model (or interpolate) a finer variation between objects or types. In figure ...that can be used to complement the learning process and generate ever more powerful models. The Space Fence space surveillance system built by Lockheed Martin for the US Air Force, due to be operational in ...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
...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, ...themselves with issues related to morality. The International Astronautical Federation (IAF) could invite philosophers to create a Space Ethics Committee. The list of potential initiatives goes on. Ultimately, it is up to us to question our...
