August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... a similar structure with one another and, while gravity constraints can tell scientists something about the relative sizes of their interior layers, there is much uncertainty in those estimates. SEIS is a six-sensor seismometer that is so sensitive...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... childless married couples who would postpone parenthood until relatively late in their reproductive life, maximising the capacity ... real societies where people tend to avoid marrying close relatives anyway. In fact, we found successful missions were ...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... wasn’t until Albert Einstein presented his theory of special relativity that the need for an ether became redundant. The speed... entwined with Albert Einstein’s theories of special relativity and general relativity. Why does light travel at this speed...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... leads to reduced lifetimes. This makes NewSpace attractive for early-stage equity investors which are interested in a relatively fast return for their investments and thus less interested in long development and amortisation periods, as is the...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... recognise that they have to work together, if their respective businesses are to prosper. This means that the relative level of mutual respect between underwriters and a specific broker can have a financially substantial effect on a client’s bottom...
April 2025
Spacecraft anomalies and insurance losses
... capacity is lost, this would normally result in a 50 percent payout relative to the insured value of the spacecraft at the time of loss....in Figure 3, by measuring the insurance loss rate relative to the platform-family launch sequence number, it ...
