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 2016
Small launcher market survey
...backing) consisting of secondary smallsats attaching themselves to a primary launch mission. The challenge lies in the fact that the larger the LV, the ability to divide up the launch costs between multiple smallsat rideshares increases, thus driving...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... and freezing temperatures is NASA’s MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) mission, which took up the challenge to study Mercury from orbit between March 2011 and April 2015. Although Mercury can appear as a very...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
...Anthropocene Epoch, a period within which human activity shapes the Earth’s geology and the so-called ecosphere. This new global-change dynamic prompts questions. Can humans survive the challenge of climate change and continued population growth? Can...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... contemporary space activity and the challenge is to find a solution that is enduring yet pragmatic in its recognition of the current state of geopolitics. This article addresses some of the issues. The first two decades of the twenty-first century...
