October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... at the Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, he pioneered optical tracking of artificial satellites at the dawn of the Space Age, in 1957, and investigated upper-atmosphere density changes using satellite observations. This led...
November 2019
Space for Art – Reflections on the Moon
... poem Thus Spoke Zarathustra, written in 1896. It illustrates a central theme of the film: humankind’s development since the dawn of time and the quest for enlightenment. “I don’t have the slightest doubt that to tell a story like...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
... serious and devastating than those of earlier wars for foreign natural resources. War in space Since the dawn of the space age, it has been agreed by the international community that outer space must be used for...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... as old as spaceflight itself. Operation Moonwatch, a global citizen-science initiative to track the first artificial satellites at the dawn of the Space Age, was the original SSA network. More recently, a dedicated community called SeeSat-L has...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... thereafter – Stratosphere and Rocket Flight (Astronautics) (Pitman, 1935) by CG Philp, and Rockets Through Space: The Dawn of Interplanetary Travel (Allen and Unwin, 1936) by PE Cleator. Although many of these early rocketeers tended to be writers...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... the UK was the Petrel sounding rocket in the early 1980s). CST believes that after many false dawns, it would seem that establishment of a UK spaceport really will happen. With either a strategic re-think, political change of heart...
