July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... of interfaces and tools for astronauts, we can achieve better goals that directly affect the success of a space mission When I started in space design over 20 years ago, I was practically alone and I wondered if an architect, a designer, could play...
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 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...
