October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... fieldwork taught me anything, it was that arguing against human space exploration would alienate me from the space industry. But we have to make tough decisions as adults, don’t we? We have to choose to tell the stories that go untold, to share...
February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
The answer from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to the political visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a Democratic congressional delegation to Taiwan in August 2022 was pretty much as expected. It came in the form of threatening military ...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... public procurement process, was regarded as an obstacle for winning contracts from the government. Since then, Japanese industry has focused on research and development (R&D) satellite programmes instead, as these were not the focus of the US-Japan...
January 2021
Safeguarding space - lessons from decommissioning in the energy industry
...nuclear and even nascent wind-power generation industries. Each industry has its own particular decommissioning protocols and... existential threat posed by Chernobyl in the nuclear industry or the significant reputational damage caused to oil producers...
June 2022
In-orbit servicing and the future of the space industry
... years of space activities did not justify the investment. Over the past 10 years, however, the space industry has been moving towards mega constellation architecture. These magaconstellations, which use of hundreds or thousands of smaller satellites...
February 2019
Chaos and creation – cultural directions for the space industry
... development of space culture is largely in the hands of the space community. The cultural directives that the space industry is currently comfortable with are twofold: first, conducting education and outreach about outer space to people on Earth...
