September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
...are the implementations. As the commercial community realises and upgrades components or modules in use by state-of-the-art space systems, those same upgraded components will require less effort to integrate than would an utterly proprietary solution...
July 2020
The four horsemen of space finance
..., and a successful finance ecosystem will emerge. Kickstarter is perhaps the best known of the crowdfunding platforms hosting space funding campaigns, including the Planetary Society’s LightSail project. However, the sums involved are currently still...
May 2021
Forecasting space-weather effects on Earth
...these changes can trigger a sudden explosion of electromagnetic energy, called a solar flare, which releases radiation into space. Sometimes, this release is accompanied by an ejection of plasma (hot clouds of ionised gas) from its surface. These are...
August 2021
Space research in embryology
... of not only technical but also medical issues, which means that including medical specialists on long-term space missions is a key prerequisite. Ultimately, if the human race is to resettle itself elsewhere in the universe, research into maintaining...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
... contribute to scientific advances was stunted by the lack of imagination around them. Veterok and Ugolyok, launched into space on 22 February 1966 aboard the Cosmos-110 biosatellite, pictured at the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, USSR...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... take a look at the history and background of space art. Most space artists would dearly love to visit other worlds; even ...to great effect: ‘ferry rockets’, forerunners of the Space Shuttle, a space station powered by solar energy, Moon bases and much...
