April 2018
Servicing the space economy
.... Exploration architectures have been proposed with refuelling for missions to the Moon and Mars. SpaceX founder Elon Musk has proposed such an architecture for his Mars colonisation plan. The leading space faring nations of the...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... be needed to make the system work. However, researchers believe the Sabatier system has a good chance of working. Elon Musk is banking on local fuel supply manufacture on Mars to allow for the refuelling of its BFR Mars spacecraft and...
December 2019
Human conception and childbirth in space
... born) in space - seems to be an attractive achievement. Of course, private billionaires are also joining this new space race: Elon Musk is one of those also aiming to be the first to put people on Mars and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has...
February 2020
Opportunity knocks for UK space industry
..., HK Whitehorn. He invented the petrol electric car in 1927 and filed the first patent in 1932 for what Elon Musk now calls the Hyperloop, but which my grandfather called the ‘Sphericar’ - a working model of which was in the...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... Science and Technology Corporation. However, everything indicates that the most advanced project is Starlink, driven by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company, which plans to launch at least 12,000 satellites. The construction of this network is underway, with...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... has announced his intention to realise Gerard K O’Neill’s vision of large space settlements located at Lagrange Point L5, and Elon Musk says he wants to put one million people on Mars. While we should not over-regulate human migration into...
