October 2026
Winning the Space Race at home
... in outer space. Space Agency One of the challenges is ensuring public legitimacy, as institutions rarely survive without the proper recognition of the people The Republic of the Philippines established the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) in 2018...
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...
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...
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...
