March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
... contribute to scientific advances was stunted by the lack of imagination around them. Veterok and Ugolyok, launched into space on 22 February 1966 aboard the Cosmos-110 biosatellite, pictured at the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, USSR...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...to develop new and more cost-effective robotics missions, advanced navigation and precision manoeuvring in space, improved space situational systems, lower cost satellite manufacturing techniques and improved power systems including higher efficiency...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... take a look at the history and background of space art. Most space artists would dearly love to visit other worlds; even ...to great effect: ‘ferry rockets’, forerunners of the Space Shuttle, a space station powered by solar energy, Moon bases and much...
June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
... an even larger role in shaping both the priorities and the laws and policies governing space. I see this as a consequence of traditional space becoming less influential in that process and some of the protectionism surrounding jobs being lessened...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
...started at a meeting of the Santa Monica chapter of the Space Tourism Society. I was there giving an update on a ...when the job of many of those employed by governments to go into space is to look around, take pictures and rush home themselves. Dennis ...
July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
... Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellite, courtesy AFSPC. About the author Gerard Brachet is a consultant on space policy issues and space applications, and was until 2015 a research associate at Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS...
