September 2025
Why the global space sector needs urgent regulation
...every year, private companies building Moon landers and planning Mars missions, and governments forming partnerships with space startups to fuel... space travel with manned flights to the Moon and Mars and space tourism is creating a demand for much ...
December 2014
Gods and space
Martian celebration – An art installation in Kolkata, inspired by India’s successful Mars mission, forms part of the Hindu Durga Puja festival, which celebrates the triumph of good over evil
December 2014
Flying saucers return
Spectacular catch – NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator is retrieved from the Pacific after a near-space test flight. The LDSD project is evaluating landing technologies for future Mars missions
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... first country to land on the lunar farside with the Chang’e-4 rover, while in 2020 it launched its first Mars mission which included an orbiter, lander and rover. And in the early 2020s China has deployed its long...
June 2019
Space industry prime directive
... years and we act as a sort of strategic sounding board. One of the things we recommended to them, for the Emirate Mars Mission for example, is that they employ what we call independent review boards - people with expertise in planetary science...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
... elevator to deliver it to the Martian surface. In the 1980s, Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin proposed that the cost of Mars missions could be greatly reduced by the use of large space stations, called ‘castles’, in cyclic orbits which, once established...
