10 September 2026
Space Hardware
... of US space achievements, but does purport to be “the perfect complement to any such background documentary”. The latter is debatable, but the author certainly understands the challenges of photography in the confined, and usually poorly-lit, museum...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... scope and framework of the S&E initiative. At this stage, the challenges related to the space systems are experienced less in the technology road-mapping branch of the initiative and more on the services branch. On the latter, investment and launch...
October 2015
Eating in space: from Michelin-starred chefs to self-sufficiency
... must be dealt with before Mars travellers even get their ingredients to the kitchen and face the challenge of cooking, whether from M. Ducasse’s recipes or not. The production of even an ostensibly simple dish like gnocchi requires multiple cooking...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
...to process and filter alerts produced by time-domain surveys. Whether fundamental or use-inspired, active research into the challenges sketched in this article is imperative not only to locating satellites and spacecraft debris but also to predicting...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
...and much more difficult to provide answers. However, what is clear is that it is no longer appropriate to think of the challenges associated with our activities in space as somehow quarantined into separate ‘pigeon-holes’. Each type of space activity...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... benefit to crew members. For instance, it is broadly agreed that the simple idea of having windows to allow the colonists to look outside is likely to be salutary. The challenge with this on the surface of Mars will be that it will be very difficult...
