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April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... events in space since the start of the space age (1957) resulting in fragmentation. The agency’s Space Environment Report 2024 states that of the 35,000 objects tracked by space surveillance networks, about 9,100 are active payloads, while the other 26,000 are pieces of space debris. And this number...
April 2026
Art, imagination and the human spirit
... War Space Race propaganda and retro sci-fi art. Over the last 20 years, I have taken every opportunity to travel and explore. I have cycled across America, Iceland and Europe and mountain biked in the Andes and the Amazon. I have also ridden my motorcycle to the Arctic, all in the name...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
... asteroids and comets. The MASTER II network is internationally recognised and its telescopes have been invited to the best observatories north and south of the equator, and the objects discovered by the network have become research subjects for the largest telescopes in the world’s space observatories. The fact that the...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... development decisions have been based upon this type of assessment and the US Space Shuttle, for example, was ‘sold’ on the assumption of 25-30 flights per year over 12 years [1]. However, the implicit assumption here is that each flight supports at least one...
May 2022
Redefining the space professional – disruptions in the space sector workforce
... of required ‘upskilling’ and ‘reskilling’ to build a space ecosystem. Looking at the requirements for future public space organisations, coupled with the requirements of private space, one sees the heavy influence of Industry 4.0 skillsets and technologies, underpinning the new automation/diversity of technology revolution in the space sector. These...
September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
... the author Mark Williamson is an independent Space Technology Consultant and writer, and a Commissioning Editor for ROOM Space Journal. He has 40 years of experience as a satellite communications engineer and consultant to 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...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... the gravity force on the Space Elevator. The planet, or other celestial body, with the base-anchor provides the rotation and the orbital kinetic energy for the payloads. The payload never requires the high kinetic energy of rockets in LEO while it climbs on the tether to GEO. The power on a Space...
August 2020
Opportunities for young people in the space sector
... a space mission in 10 days under the supervision of experts, and the Space Astronomy Summer programme in Maryland, USA, where students can work with Space Telescope Science Institute researchers on data interpretation, software development and scientific writing. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... the satellite itself and the launch services. Finally, as a direct result of the cost aspects and the fact that there are relatively few launches to insure, space insurance attracts the interest of the top ‘C-suite’ executives – in both industrial and insurance sectors. The scale of the premiums involved, and...
