January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... we start by setting the scene for the Portuguese Space Agency: when was it formed and what is its main mission? The space sector in Portugal dates to the dawn of the Space Age with the supply of cork insulating material to many...
03 January 2021
A History of the Universe in 21 Stars (and 3 imposters)
... published back in the 1950s or 1960s, when the Space Age was young. From its stylised cover design to its ...it channels the comfortable astronomy primers of an earlier and simpler age. Un-surprisingly for a book published in 2020, the similarity ends...
April 2019
The changing economics of space
... in numbers The advent of larger and larger LEO constellations using smaller spacecraft has ushered in a new Space Age and the concept has been pioneered by entrepreneurial spacecraft operators, looking to provide communications to end users at low...
29 March 2018
Mapping the Heavens
... understanding of the universe has changed to an almost incredible extent since the beginning of the Space Age, not least thanks to products of that Space Age. A child growing up half a century ago could read a few classic astronomy texts featuring...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... between Christopher Columbus and the Spanish Monarchs, which financed him, to today’s space agencies like NASA. However, today we live in a ‘commercial’ Space Age which has far stronger parallels to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) which...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
.... As leading thinkers have been saying for many years, the choice which humanity faces is between a Space Age or a return to the Stone Age. I like to illustrate this in terms of popular TV serials: either our future will look like Star...
