November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... playing field with international competitors. In this context, the Japanese government realised the need to establish a space industrial policy to meet the challenges of a changing global market. The government coordinated to form a sub-committee...
May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
...-threatening consequences, any constructed living space needs to contribute to our adaptation to the challenges of living off-Earth. Such conditions will also present challenges unforeseen by mission planners and situations where residents will have...
02 December 2019
"Impossible" black hole found in our Galaxy
... leave behind such a massive remnant. LB-1 is twice as massive as what we thought possible. Now theorists will have to take up the challenge of explaining its formation." Until just a few years ago, stellar black holes could only be discovered when...
January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
... resources is apparent. The challenge is how to get at them and what’s required is the infrastructure of a robust space economy. The first place to begin is cislunar space, the Earth, Moon and the immediate neighbourhood, including the region that...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
... data management systems supporting these programmes need a new approach to handle the challenge at a completely new scale. Multi-mission ground stations, as well as the fusion of ground stations and cloud computing, are two transformational concepts...
June 2020
Building a digital democracy in a planetary pandemic
Despite the challenges of a global virus pandemic, the world’s first ‘digital democracy’ has continued ... ‘lift-off’ for our economy. Those are big challenges. But going to the Moon was harder - and the United States did that in under a decade. More ...
