October 2024
Space exploration remains a crucial endeavour for humanity
... enriches our current society but also ensures a legacy of continued innovation and exploration. This ongoing commitment to space inspires future generations to look beyond our planetary boundaries and consider what might be possible in the broader...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
...to shine a spotlight on congressional discourse, annual budgets, fictional representations, the narratives promoted by leading commercial space companies, space law and social media, to tease apart answers to the questions posed above. Sometimes this...
April 2025
Maximising returns to Earth - the infinite potential of space
... start demanding stuff, reclaim your sovereignty, recognise that you have choices.” But he warned that “if we lose space, we can’t achieve Earth sustainability,” since satellites provide critical observations for managing life on Earth. Moreover, Jah...
March 2026
The imagined sky – power, inequality and the future of space sustainability
...: addressing emerging issues and challenges” on its provisional agenda for sessions up to 2029. Governance in an unequal space age Space governance reflects long-standing global inequalities. The foundational treaties were shaped at a time when only...
April 2026
Robotics is the future of space labour
...time is scheduled right down to five-minute intervals The International Space Station’s (ISS) primary function is to act as an orbiting... compelling enough to make robotic labour in space inevitable. Space and robotics have always gone hand in hand...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...to develop new and more cost-effective robotics missions, advanced navigation and precision manoeuvring in space, improved space situational systems, lower cost satellite manufacturing techniques and improved power systems including higher efficiency...
