June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
... the staggering US$90.2 million recently raised by ispace in a series-A funding round for its fledgling lunar transportation business. Kepler wrote, in an open letter to Galileo: “We shall prepare, for the brave sky-travellers, maps of the celestial...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... resume, the company will face competition, as several others, including Deep Space Industries (now Bradford Space), Kepler Energy & Space Engineering and the UK-based Asteroid Mining Corporation have expressed similar intentions to prospect and...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... Egyptian and Aztec hieroglyphics depicting the cosmos, a great hall filled with paintings, drawings and artefacts of Kepler, Brahe, Galileo and Newton, and another filled with Islamic astronomy artefacts, and so on. In the more contemporary...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... and using a remote propulsion method would be a better approach for reaching the speed of light. In 1610, Johannes Kepler suggested “sailing on the winds of space” and he had it right. Sunlight-propelled light sails were demonstrated by the...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... altitude at the right time to knock out other satellites. If an ASAT system employs low-thrust electric engines, Kepler’s orbital equations do not apply and space surveillance networks cannot adequately track and identify which space...
05 July 2015
From SETI to black crust on Churyumov-Gerasimenko: looking for alien life
.... The SETI institute was established with precisely such hopes in mind. Its work involves studying the Kepler space observatory’s field for radio signals potentially emitted by intelligent civilisations , for example. Unverified claims of the...
