February 2020
Surviving bacteria in space
...complications. In addition, currently adopted decontamination protocols have shown only partial effectiveness, giving germs the opportunity to persist and grow again. A safe environment for spacecraft crews is therefore currently not fully guaranteed...
April 2020
Spaceport Cornwall – from protests to sustainability
..., innovative developers with potentially game-changing technologies were being priced out of the market and identified an opportunity which it is supporting with funding, policy and spaceflight regulations. One of the shortlisted sites for horizontal...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... that advanced preparation work for European spaceports is necessary, in order to capitalise, in time, on the new business opportunities presented by a new breed of launch vehicles. These launchers are unlikely to emerge before the early 2020s, but...
March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
... and biodiversity crises cause irreparable damage. It is time to take a different view. Very few of us have had the opportunity to take a step back and consider our planetary home in its entirety. However impressive the ‘Blue Marble...
May 2021
Visions of beating gravity
...naïve dream or a life-changing possibility. Like many people, I have a full and busy life, and I appreciate the opportunities and challenges all the different elements of my life bring. I work as a Security & Enterprise Architect for CGI, I volunteer...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... Funk, aged 82, and Oliver Daemen, 18, respectively). The sophisticated publicity machines of these large companies missed no opportunity to trumpet the historic nature of their achievements. Indeed, much has already been written about the success...
