June 2018
We live on a planet!
...Apollo 8 were the first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit, see Earth as a whole planet, and witness an Earthrise. ... we do of space is how we rediscover ourselves here on Earth. The Earthrise image from the Moon was certainly one of the...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... Starlink satellites by the end of 2020, it will single-handedly increase the number of operational satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) by 50 percent. SpaceX has received regulatory authorisation for 12,000 Starlink satellites, and recently sought...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
...in Space Law & Policy at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, where she is working on the sustainable governance of low Earth orbit. She is also Programme Director and Board Member at the Centre for a Spacefaring Civilization, where she...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... starting point for much-needed international cooperation on issues affecting the space environment. A stack of smallsats in low Earth orbit. Ecological paradigm Users of space need to consider the impact of their activities upon the unique and...
January 2023
Producing food in space
... around six months’ worth of food, and there are regular shipments to resupply it in low Earth orbit (LEO). Once you start increasing the distance from Earth, resupply is not a viable option. The Moon, at a distance of 384,000 km, is a thousand times...
September 2023
Getting a grip on space sustainability and space debris
...space as being vast, the bits that we use, particularly the areas around Earth, are actually quite constrained and fragile. Low Earth orbits (LEO), where we find Earth observation satellites and the new broadband range of satellites, is quite a small...
