June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... created widespread power failures in Scandinavia. The magnetic north and south poles are shifting, as confirmed by ESA’s Swarm Satellite constellation and NASA’s four satellite Magnetic Multiscale Mission (MMS), which means that the natural...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
... the Apollo centenary we could imagine a voyage into the asteroid belt, perhaps overseeing the artificial intelligence swarms that roamed among these rocky bodies. But we could go no further. The vast distances and the long...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
..., by providing a 3D mapping function to characterise the size and shape of the lava tubes. Mapping data from the swarm of Asagumo rovers will be transmitted back to Earth via the Mothership, which remains outside the cave and...
May 2021
Visions of beating gravity
... way to living in space. During the last afternoon of the conference, I gave a presentation entitled ‘Sustainable Space Colony Swarm Architecture’ (see: MADmelange.Space/Asgardia). At the end I explained to the audience that I have a problem with...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... in a large and compact group, arranging them so that they protect each other against radiation. With a high swarm density and the correct orientation of the ships, the living compartments can be effectively protected by multi-metre...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
...have already occurred. The first was the unauthorised launch of multiple unlicensed and untrackable small satellites by Swarm Technologies Inc in January 2018 in defiance of a ruling by the Federal Communications Commission, for which the company was...
