November 2016
Turning the Solar System into our backyard
... market, the sector’s aptitude for disruptive, game-changing innovation has been mostly lacklustre since the Apollo era. However, new methodologies such as ‘agile aerospace’ are enabling rapid design cycles of complex space systems...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
... through low-cost launch, relaxation of restrictive laws and a substantial political desire not seen since the Apollo programme, it is vital that any organisation working in this domain has a solid cybersecurity foundation. From satellite sensor...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
..., predicting what will happen next remains notoriously tricky for the vast majority of volcanic systems. A 3D view of an Apollo mission sample that has been measured using X-ray microcomputed tomography. The different shades of grey, highlight...
March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
... back and consider our planetary home in its entirety. However impressive the ‘Blue Marble’ - photographed by the Apollo astronauts in orbit around the Moon - might be, or the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ imaged by Voyager 1 six billion kilometres...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... Virgin Galactic employees with a few short minutes of microgravity. Nine days later, marking the 52nd anniversary of Apollo 11’s lunar landing on 20 July, Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos joined the first crewed flight of the New Shepard...
March 2022
What space taught me about water
... gained from her own spaceflight experience and reflecting on the significance of the iconic ‘Earthrise’ photo from Apollo 8, the author hopes to inspire an ‘Earthrise moment’ in each of us to take on our most important role as crewmates, not...
