July 2019
Settling the final frontier
A new space age is dawning, an age characterised by commercial and ...life on Earth as well as the expansion of humanity into space. Settlement includes space resource utilisation, space fuel depots, research outposts, and more. It’s about taking ...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
Since the beginning of the Space Age in the1950s, the US State of Florida has been a leader in the space industry. The nation originally turned to Florida for its spaceport because of location - proximity to both the ocean ...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... the cultural impact of the Space Age. Isn’t this our destiny, isn’t this what ‘Space’ is all about? Chris ... explorers that I want for my grandchildren. I want Space to come of age. Perhaps duller, perhaps less adventurous, certainly more responsible ...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
Since the beginning of the Space Age, some 35 nations have been involved ... array of environmental issues - it is a puzzle that in many cases the space and meteorological agencies around the world that collect satellite data essential to address these...
June 2018
Striding through space
... subject of one of the most famous images of the Space Age but his time as an astronaut encompassed much more than ... the photos and on TV he is distinguishable by a plain white space suit, whereas McCandless had a red stripe on each limb, like Apollo...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
...been a part of the night sky since the dawn of the Space Age in 1957, and a good number of spacecraft can be observed ...Typical smallsats in a mega constellation. The European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office estimates there are currently some 22,000...
