April 2021
Managing the Moon - a model for engaging with planetary environments
...living ecologies is not sufficient to cover all human engagements with celestial bodies beyond our own. We should consider the Moon as an... board of trustees to speak for the entity. A similar body for the Moon might determine how much of the water-ice...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... on Mars complete with a hydroponic greenhouse to supply food to the colonists. Mars landing To declare space and celestial bodies as the common heritage of humankind is to recognise and accept the burden of managing what we discover Upon reaching...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... orbital stations near colonised planets. Space settlements on the Moon, Mars, Ceres, Titan and other celestial bodies can be protected from hypogravity, as the rotation of residential settlement modules, that create artificial gravity, is possible...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... that parties should “avoid harmful contamination of space and celestial bodies;” while articles I, II, and III talk about the... at large pieces of space debris, including satellites and rocket bodies, since these are too large to fully burn up in the...
01 July 2016
Asteroid Day was celebrated on June 30 – but what was it all about?
... (COO of B612), Grigorij Richters and Rusty Schweickart. But what is an asteroid, anyways? The classification of celestial bodies is largely size and orbit-dependent. Asteroids, sometimes referred to as minor planets or planetoids, are large rocky...
24 September 2018
Hayabusa2 rovers land successfully on Ryugu
... method of space exploration by surface movement on small bodies,” said Yuichi Tsuda, Project Manager for Hayabusa2. The...confirm the effectiveness of this movement mechanism on the small celestial body and see the result of many years of research,” ...
