24 September 2025
Cybersecurity, cosmic weather and Europa’s secrets
... is not the enemy of innovation but a necessary foundation for the commercial space age. Legal specialists Molly Doyle and Lauren Napier examine what happens when space debris falls back to Earth, using a recent real-life case...
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...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
Since the dawn of the Space Age, satellite communications ground systems have changed..., cost alone presents a reasonable argument for optimised efficiency in today’s space communication models. However, the ground infrastructure to handle the load of...
June 2022
Space activities and space debris - finding an ethical balance
... view of the author, is rapidly developing into both technical and ethical challenges. Since the beginning of the Space Age, heralded by Sputnik 1 reaching low Earth orbit (LEO) in 1957, more than 6,000 successful launches have led...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... world’s oceans. A tongue-in-cheek adaptation of the Starlink Falcon 9 mission patch. Since the early days of the Space Age, we have witnessed an increasing awareness of the need to mitigate the result of humanity’s ecological impact and ever-growing...
