February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... 1 satellite in a rocket. SpaceBar The subject of space junk was the theme of a recent discussion on SpaceBar...science. [See also ROOM #22, Winter 2019/20 – ‘Preserving our space heritage’ by Stuart Eves]. Such an orbital museum would come with ...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... of interfaces and tools for astronauts, we can achieve better goals that directly affect the success of a space mission When I started in space design over 20 years ago, I was practically alone and I wondered if an architect, a designer, could play...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
...military exercises can begin to answer these fundamental questions. Optimised attack orbital regimes that avoid adversary space sensor networks. Notional orbital attack computer graphic displays. Notional orbital attack display with attack sequencing...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... cannon was installed to fend off prospective attackers. By the 1980s, though, the concealment of military space within ‘civilian’ space by all the space powers became less and less feasible or credible. On the American side, the growth of military...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
...Political reform cannot happen without understanding past and present political reality in space. The biggest stain on benign images of space technology and the Space Age is that it helped bring about the prospect of nuclear Armageddon. The satellite...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... US as the country with the most annual launches - in 2021 alone it launched 55 missions. Furthermore, China is conducting historic space exploration missions and is racing the US to land humans on the Moon and ultimately to build a base on Mars for...
