August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
... that is now becoming a reality could soon become ‘standard operating practice’ for space activities. Recent missions on Mars and the Moon are already ‘robotised’ and ‘digitalised’ with rovers exhibiting significant elements of autonomy. For...
December 2014
Technology drives space exploration: we won’t make it to Mars without investment
... aboard the station, to the proving ground of a mission to an asteroid and, finally, to an Earth-independent mission to Mars. Groundbreaking space technologies will help enable these missions, stimulate the economy, contribute to the nation’s global...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... station on our natural satellite. We also know that NASA has expressed keen interest in sending a manned mission to Mars by 2030 even though such a programme would require considerable financing in return for disputable scientific gain (robot...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/10/elon-musk-provides-new-details-on-his-mind-blowing-mission-to-mars/ 4 See, for examples of this the discussion by Maschke, P., Oubaid, V. and Pecena, Y. (2011). How Do Astronaut Candidate Profiles...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... around the Moon where NASA will test and verify technologies and processes needed before executing missions to Mars. Using a more powerful Exploration Upper Stage, Block 1B will have the capability to loft 105 metric tons...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
...political power. Other space agencies had developed detailed plans for a permanent base to better prepare future missions to Mars. “When someone states that something is possible he is almost certainly right, when someone says something is impossible...