November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... of our interstellar mission entirely from stored food, the mass required would soar to two million tonnes. Farming, which recycles nutrients, could in principle dramatically reduce this. But establishing how much of a difference this could...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
... with a culinary background and several natural assistants (bees, earth worms and microorganisms) and robotic helpers (farming robots) which will work alongside the human inhabitants. The function of the ring-shaped lab would...
October 2019
Making the most of Blockchain in space
...in space start-ups), a co-founder of NewSpace marketing company Brand Delta-V, and a co-founder of Eden Grow Systems, a farming 2.0 technology company. She began running the NewSpace Business Plan Competition in 2009, a programme focused on educating...
November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
... aft flight deck of Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-128 mission. Originating from a Mexican migrant farming family, he was an ‘unofficial’ Mexican astronaut in 2009. The future AEM is the gateway to Mexico´s international space engagement...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... that the real enabler is the lower cost of launch, which will allow the construction of giant solar farms in space, manufacturing in space and so on. In the further future, when we consider, for example, the ambitions of Asgardia the...
April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
... for Mars habitats include radiation shielding, but even a short amount of time spent on the surface - for farming, repairs, or exploration - would increase the radiation exposure. This radiation exposure means that people living on Mars...
