January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... much further out, so perhaps Ceres is a Kuiper belt object. Two missions currently under development will also address small body migration concepts. JAXA’s Martian Moons Exploration mission (MMX) will go to the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos...
February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
... standards will be the key issue as we introduce autonomous vehicles to Europe’s road networks. Data from ESA’s Earth Explorer missions address scientific questions that help predict the effects of climate change and address scientific questions that...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
...constellations, and the fourth phase of the China Lunar Exploration Program. Overall, despite the 2020s having begun with... year, and future Chang’e missions, deep space exploration missions and even human lunar missions planned for later in the decade...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
... and space segments and between space assets, and effectively enhance communications networks for deep space exploration missions. Space imagery processing that once took humans hours, days or weeks to review and analyse can be automated...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
...applications may be less than the expected practical scientific benefits in other types of missions. A second ethical issue associated with scientific exploration missions is the potential health risks to astronauts. This is an issue that arises with...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
...surpassed the US as the country with the most annual launches - in 2021 alone it launched 55 missions. Furthermore, China is conducting historic space exploration missions and is racing the US to land humans on the Moon and ultimately to build a base...
