August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
This article identifies some of the most important incentives to attract entrepreneurship that are embodied in national space laws, in particular ...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
One of the top priorities for any person on Earth is protecting their home. But though we can change our regular home a few times during a lifetime, we cannot move away from the Earth - we will not be able to leave our home in space, our spaceship, ...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
.... In seeking to facilitate a pro-growth environment in space, the United States’ government is walking a fine line in avoiding Article II of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 (OST), which banned the appropriation of ‘celestial bodies’. It is true that...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... and more than 40 per cent of European ISS experiments come from German research institutions. Over 1400 articles have been published in scientific journals since 2001 in the context of the DLR Space Administration programme ‘Research...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
During his first orbital flight on the Mercury-6 spacecraft, astronaut John Glenn noticed a strange phenomenon. The spacecraft was in orbit and, when the Sun came up, he reported with great excitement that he was surrounded by thousands of small ...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... debated how limitations can lead to breakthroughs. Marissa Mayer, of Google and Yahoo fame, once famously wrote an article titled ‘Creativity Loves Constraints’ where she outlined how limits can ‘shape and focus problems and...
