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 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... IX further provides that the study and exploration of space and celestial bodies must be conducted in such a ... deal with any global health concern occurring in space or originating from space. But as the current coronavirus demonstrates, global...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
...military exercises can begin to answer these fundamental questions. Optimised attack orbital regimes that avoid adversary space sensor networks. Notional orbital attack computer graphic displays. Notional orbital attack display with attack sequencing...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... cannon was installed to fend off prospective attackers. By the 1980s, though, the concealment of military space within ‘civilian’ space by all the space powers became less and less feasible or credible. On the American side, the growth of military...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
...Political reform cannot happen without understanding past and present political reality in space. The biggest stain on benign images of space technology and the Space Age is that it helped bring about the prospect of nuclear Armageddon. The satellite...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... US as the country with the most annual launches - in 2021 alone it launched 55 missions. Furthermore, China is conducting historic space exploration missions and is racing the US to land humans on the Moon and ultimately to build a base on Mars for...
