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...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
...Political reform cannot happen without understanding past and present political reality in space. The biggest stain on benign images of space technology and the Space Age is that it helped bring about the prospect of nuclear Armageddon. The satellite...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... US as the country with the most annual launches - in 2021 alone it launched 55 missions. Furthermore, China is conducting historic space exploration missions and is racing the US to land humans on the Moon and ultimately to build a base on Mars for...
March 2016
Space for art
... that might otherwise engage with science. Through ‘Space for Art’, I will provide insight into projects... my spacecraft windows can provide people with a new and different perspective on space missions - and on the value to all of us right here on ...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
... so, and I am so thankful to all of the photographers who are chronicling the magnificent beauty of spaceflight. To me, this picture of the Space Shuttle Discovery’s roll to the launch pad for her final flight is the most beautiful I’ve ever seen...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
... the objects discovered by the network have become research subjects for the largest telescopes in the world’s space observatories. The fact that the world’s largest physical experiments on neutrino registration (ANTARES, IceCube) and gravitational...
