January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... we should redouble our efforts to understand, explore and better govern ourselves through a world supported by satellites and exploit what they can offer us here and now to take better care of our own planet - that this...
April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
... operatiional needs. Norway is a maritime nation with a long history in shipping and fisheries, as well as oil and gas exploitation at sea. With more than two million square kilometres of ocean areas, much of which is in the Arctic, monitoring...
October 2023
Slovenia’s footprint in space
... These include engineering and manufacturing of upstream components and platforms, development of ground segment equipment, and exploitation of space data and signals for downstream applications. The Slovenian space industry primarily comprises start...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
... and colonise Mars, all supposedly with the best of possible intentions - the salvation of humanity through the exploitation of space. Philosopher of science and religion Mary-Jane Rubenstein irreverently describes the outer space of today as a place...
26 July 2021
EUMETSAT strengthens environment monitoring role
... atmosphere-monitoring missions in the Earth observation programme. It entrusts EUMETSAT with the continued operation and exploitation of the existing Copernicus Sentinel-3 and -6 ocean-monitoring missions, the up-coming Sentinel-4 and -5 atmosphere...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
... implies a population ethic, but it is not only concerned with the question of future overpopulation in space and the exploitation of space resources, but with the very initial conditions of life in space. These conditions may indeed be unbearable...
