December 2017
Dressing up for space
...are integrated into garments. Common language The space community must find a new language to entice the public... common language that can help the hi-tech research and industrial worlds communicate and collaborate. A ‘design vision’ might be a key to ...
January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
... transformed humans from hunter-gatherers to farmers. A new kind of farming lifestyle greatly increased the ability of human communities to capture energy and enabled a hundredfold increase in human population. Then, some 300 years ago, came the...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... mainstays in the space industry have also ramped up their innovation programmes and acquisition pipelines. The angel community is flourishing with dozens of new angels making their first investments in the sector in 2017. However, notably nearly...
February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
... led to miniaturisation and a massive reduction in cost while the need is increasing for applications such as communications, remote sensing (Earth observation and meteorology), navigation and the next generation of entertainment technologies like...
February 2018
Are we asking the right questions about space debris?
... this information; while advanced modelling techniques can be applied to collision risk calculations, it is all for naught if risk communications and risk awareness are neglected. In C975, over the last 18 months, there have been five recorded...
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
Onboard processors with great amounts of processing capability are allowing the space community to move towards spacecraft capable of executing actual operating systems. This ongoing transformation is similar to what happened for ...
