October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... on board are just trying to make a living, perhaps with the hope of sending money home and seeing a bit of the galaxy. Sound familiar? However, all these civilians were - spoiler alert! - incinerated by the successful Rebel...
May 2022
Using space data to improve life on Earth
.... Recruiting the right person at the right time in the right location is never an easy task. What makes it a bit easier for us at Spire is that what we are doing is on the cutting edge of one of, if not the most, forward...
June 2022
Pandemic parallels
... to manage this with regular Earth contact and crew care packages, intended to help make space feel a bit more like home. During the SFINCSS-99 simulation, one participant recounted her great appreciation for the...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... 3000 metres long, weather stations, radar, an ATM station, harbour and a teleport and tracking station! Tell us a bit more about your commitment to sustainability, which features as a headline statement on your stand here at the IAC in Paris...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
...-burning particulates, small enough to penetrate the tightest of seams.” In short, as SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell admits, Mars is a bit of a “fixer-upper of a planet”. Okay, but how do you fix up a planet? Isn’t this already the question...
April 2024
Commercial launch development in Spain
... 5 full scale production. It’s taken you a number of years to get to this position, as you said. Tell us a little bit about the history of PLD Space. We founded the company as space enthusiasts. We were at university, working in a kind of rocketry...
