...or larger for specific identification. Image processing techniques are then applied to detect anomalies in the scene, also exploiting colour-aided contrast techniques. An approach based on high resolution imaging offers the best chances to detect and...
... This also gives rise to what I term the ‘creeping colonisation’ of space, around claims regarding resource exploitation and attempts by countries to establish systems to protect themselves against their vulnerabilities by denying access to space for...
... it and sometimes even prioritise it. For the time being, NewSpace entrepreneurs and projects do not escape this. Exploiting the mineral resources of an asteroid (even to refuel spacecraft dedicated to space exploration) and terraforming Mars are...
...threat landscape. Threats alone would not pose a risk if there were no known vulnerabilities for an adversary to exploit. Similarly, system vulnerabilities would not always result in risk, especially in peacetime, when there is no incentive to attack...
.... We need to learn how to live and work there and that requires a large lander with the capability to exploit resources on the lunar surface Again, we’re taking a lot of the technology from New Shepard in designing a lunar lander...
...Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act that explicitly allows US citizens to “engage in the commercial exploration and exploitation of space resources (including ... water and minerals)”. Luxembourg also passed a law in 2017 that gives companies...