January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
... Europe, mega-constellation launches on both coasts of the United States within a few days of each other, and a farm in England. It also took me on a journey through the space sector, government, space agencies, military, regulation, insurance market...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
...-esteem, reduce depression and stress while coriander could improve sleep quality. Thus, plant-based space farming is interesting on a nutritional, psychological and medical level. However, the lack of room and the particular growing conditions...
October 2023
Slovenia’s footprint in space
... (SWIR) spectroscopy, which was applied to automated textile substrate identification and soil quality in smart farming. These new terrestrial technologies were developed based on technology used by the NANOimager, a miniaturised multispectral...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
... emissions, stop using plastics, plant more trees, clean up the oceans, restore the rainforests, ban industrial farming, eat as little meat as possible, and divert subsidies away from oil and cars and toward public...
April 2024
Unlocking the NewSpace economy through space-based solar power
... high concentration photovoltaics, SBSP would need significantly fewer rare minerals, compared to a similar sized terrestrial solar farm. It also uses less land than renewables for equivalent power output: just 40 percent of terrestrial solar and...
20 July 2020
Hope launch heralds ambitious future space plans
... revolutionary with the UAE in setting up in-space research centers”, plus an announcement “in the next few months” on a space farming plan with implications for food security here on Earth. “How can you use that to green the...
