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 ...
February 2021
Cyber and Space – the role of the cyber-range
... that offer some advantages when we look at the challenge of providing resilience. And there is a solution that enables us to build on these to provide protection - the cyber-range. Challenge of blurred lines Society is becoming progressively and...
September 2023
Space sustainability and the global commons
...maritime law. Here, Professor Kai-Uwe Schrogl, President of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), assesses the current state of play and addresses the challenges faced by the international law-making community to create a system to support...
10 November 2021
NASA moves human lunar landing mission to 2025
... to Orion to Gateway, human landing systems, ground systems, communications, spacesuits and more - its staggering. First at the Moon, and then at Mars,” says NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy. “But we're NASA, and we're rising to the challenge."
