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...
May 2024
Prioritising space solutions to accelerate sustainable development
... is what it means to embed ‘space by design’ into the fabric of an economy. But I would invite you to think a little bit further than this. We are all affected by current global challenges. Climate change is one of them; political stability...
October 2024
Virtualisation of the satellite sector
... satellites. High Throughput Satellite (HTS) platforms have increased bandwidth and performance and lowered price-per-bit. Payloads are now often software-defined, highly flexible and configurable in orbit with steerable and splitable...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
... been squeamish about exploring these sorts of questions. Unfortunately, the work done to date is not the least bit systematic - it’s been done on different creatures, in different setups, with different protocols, for different lengths of time. The...
