February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... 1 satellite in a rocket. SpaceBar The subject of space junk was the theme of a recent discussion on SpaceBar...science. [See also ROOM #22, Winter 2019/20 – ‘Preserving our space heritage’ by Stuart Eves]. Such an orbital museum would come with ...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... interested in politics. Sorry, Asgardian Parliamentarians, but most of them will be ‘just about managing’ on their home planet or space station. This is, in fact, an unintentional subtext of Star Wars, revealed by the fact that almost all the non...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
...of humanity that explores and will someday exploit space. To declare space and celestial bodies as the common heritage of ...must maintain and develop scientific research and technical innovation, outer space must also be a place and a reason to develop...
August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
... exploitation’ has something of a negative hue predisposing opinions on the subject. Similarly, neither ‘use of outer space’ or ‘space exploration’ encompass any commercial motive, as they refer to generic and rather scientific purposes. So far, the...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... and centripetal force at GEO lies at a distance of ~42,164 km from Earth’s centre, 35,786 km above the equator. The Space Elevator is also an extremely simple construct compared to a bridge, basically a flawless, extremely long rope more akin to the...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... a political problem and... therefore, only subject to a political solution. Without supportive political action to develop the law of space, space lawyers are reduced to the 20th century version of arguing the number of angels that can sit on the...
