November 2018
Being human in space
... on the necessary technology but also to consider the biological and social factors involved in making such a gargantuan voyage feasible. “We need self-sustaining and evolvable space technology capable of enduring the many decades needed to journey...
April 2019
On-board propulsion set to drive the smallsat revolution
...This was a problem encountered on the Hayabusa spacecraft of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on its return voyage from a near-Earth asteroid in 2007-2010. ThrustMe’s second innovation is the use of a novel RF acceleration technique that...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
... bases and transport people from one base to another, offering them a completely different experience during the voyage. Docking/charging stations are placed along the paths between the lunar bases. One proposal for...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... is on your investment. Unless we can kick-start more human commerce off-Earth, then the market for voyaging to space will never grow meaningfully. How might that change in the next decade? Boeing’s Starliner astronaut...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... statements for the artists themselves. Carl Sagan’s Golden Record, sent into interstellar space aboard the Voyager spacecraft, set a course as a more didactic synthesis of the human experience, and was thereby more pluralistic in its...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... IHR also addresses measures regarding “conveyances”, which include aircraft, ships “or other means of transport on an international voyage”. A restrictive reading encompasses the transport of persons and cargo between international borders, but the...
