October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
... and non-state actors to address a range of global issues including preserving the environment, monitoring climate change, protecting biodiversity, enabling education, managing the weather, providing telemedicine services and managing agricultural...
February 2021
Supporting sustainable lunar development
... much energy production, mining and heavy industry off the planet, allowing us to greatly slow the effects of climate change and restore biodiversity. It will also transform the way we think about our own humanity and...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... at large, as researchers, academics and entrepreneurs consider applications of space for addressing global issues like water scarcity, climate change and poverty, to name just three. At the same time, the renewal of great-power competition has...
January 2023
Evolving human space culture – reflections on humanity’s cultural potential in space
... lives in space and space exploration to manifest and flourish. Regardless of conflicting arguments and opinions on topics like climate change and the source of its mechanisms, human beings have proved themselves to be a very contentious, often toxic...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
... Activities conference in Lisbon, Portugal, the Director of UNOOSA, Aarti Holla-Maini, stated: “Unlike the gradual crisis of climate change the accumulation of space debris could fast surpass our ability to mitigate.” However, there is another way...
May 2026
Satellite brightness and the mitigation challenge
... once an intermittently disturbed sky into a permanently altered one. These spacecraft – essential to global communications, navigation, climate monitoring and security – have introduced a new, artificial brightness that did not exist at scale before...
