November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
... argument will fuel a ‘race to the bottom’, as all major (space) powers dedicate even more energy towards an arms race in space. This also gives rise to what I term the ‘creeping colonisation’ of space, around claims regarding...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
...PhD in Robotics and worked as a Research Fellow at JAXA on several tele-operation experiments of ETS-VII satellite robot arm. He co-founded DEIMOS Space SL in 2001, participating in the development of various advanced flight systems, such as IXV, and...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... year that US President Donald Trump laid out his plans for a new ‘Space Force’ branch of the US armed services, he declared that “Space is a war-fighting arena, just like the land, air and sea”. China...
May 2019
A matter of perspective
... of travellers in space have been part of a small and highly exclusive group of professional astronauts – pilots, members of the armed forces, scientists, engineers. All astronauts who have ever been into space bring back reports of fundamental...
