March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
... will print a satellite. It’s real. We’re flying it on satellites now.” SpaceX is also significantly involved in AM. According to Elon Musk, chief designer and CEO: “SpaceX is pushing the boundaries of what Additive Manufacturing can do in the 21st...
March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
...’ of the SpaceX Falcon 9 on 21 December 2015, a remarkable feat to say the least. Newspapers credit the success to Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX. This is the event that took place but what do I see, as a philosopher of science? The first...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... headlines such as, ‘Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind’ (BBC News, December 2014) or ‘Elon Musk’s billion-dollar crusade to stop the AI apocalypse’ (Vanity Fair, April 2017). Could it be that we have clumsily replaced...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
...space enterprise as, despite the ‘billionaire cavalry’ (as Rick Tumlinson of Deep Space Industries likes to call them) of Musk, Bezos, Branson, et al, they cannot do it alone. It will require space agencies worldwide to coordinate the various efforts...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... architectures have been proposed with refuelling for missions to the Moon and Mars. SpaceX founder Elon Musk has proposed such an architecture for his Mars colonisation plan. The leading space faring nations of the...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... we needed to at last begin to pry open the airlock. Well before what I call the ‘billionaire cavalry’ of Bezos, Musk, Branson and the others showed up, some of us worked for decades to figure out how to fund the frontier...
