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 ...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
...Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Committee for the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), actively engaged in addressing the challenge of space debris. The emphasis of the discussions is on debris mitigation and minimisation of objects...
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...
September 2023
Five more years for Asgardia’s stellar democracy
... first Chair of Parliament. This was a huge role, requiring all the skills and experience I had gathered across four decades in frontline politics, in the UK and internationally. The challenge of making that first Parliament work was so big because...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
... remain in relative infancy. Five years ago IT entrepreneur Nobu Okada decided to address the challenge by forming a company focused on the issue of space debris removal. Here, he describes his ideas and a business plan that he hopes will protect...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... responsibility concerns both orbits around the Earth (the circulation of satellites, the allocation of frequencies, the use of images from remote sensing, etc.) and the exploration of the solar system (the sterilisation of probes and, more broadly...
