August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in September 1997, was accidentally omitted. In February 2009 The Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 communications satellites collided over northern Siberia - the first time a hypervelocity collision occurred between two...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... with danger and increases the possibility that war will be exported from this planet into the cosmos. About the author Attorney Leslie I Tennen has focused on space law for more than 40 years. He is a partner...
January 2020
A year of consolidation and expansion
..., the astronomer Ernst Julius Öpik. He did a lot of pioneering work on the solar system. With names like Cosmos and Supernova for meeting rooms it had Asgardia written all over it. The stage was set for...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... (USA). Tsiolkovsky published several small books on space travel and cosmology (the expansion of humans into the cosmos). The ‘holy grail’ of this genre is an article published in the May 1903 issue of Nauchnoe Obozrenie [Scientific Review...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... humans are self-aware and part of the universe. Carl Sagan said, “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself,” and this means humanity expanding into the universe, and to do so following a global ‘template’ that...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... about the future of their discipline. Astronomers have been striving to better understand our place in the cosmos, unfettered by human interference from either satellites or billboards, for millennia. Indeed, it is possible to argue that observing...
