June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
... boldly go’ where no man has gone before. Take, for example, Made In Space maturing its microgravity 3D printing technologies with the end motive of transforming asteroids into spacecraft, or the staggering US$90.2 million recently raised by ispace...
December 2018
Prosperity in the stars
.... What Ashurbeyli does want is a completely independent national bank that removes “the government’s monopoly over the print shop”, which he refers to as “an old theory that apparently emerged in the 19th century”. While an independent central bank...
October 2019
Asgardia’s calendar and its role in space industrialisation strategy
... (the top row in each cell of the calendar matrix), which saves tens of thousands of tonnes of paper, dyes, printing and transportation costs. With constant (fixed) rows of numbers in the calendar matrix of the permanent calendar and...
October 2019
Making the most of Blockchain in space
.... Currently, our monetary systems are highly centralised. Central banks set policy and interest rates, and print money. For a thousand years, since the early banking of the Knights Templar during the crusades, the...
April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
... was the only way forward, but what propellant can accomplish all of this? The advances in 3D printing now allow for significant increases in design complexities, previously unattainable through traditional engineering. These complexities also ...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
...established industries to repurpose them for space – like new materials, mining to extract water, oxygen and inks to print spare parts, agriculture to grow food in inhospitable terrain, space object tracking, and space exploration. The identification...
