October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
.... Apollo 13 is very much worth watching because it effectively shows three points of particular interest to would-be space voyagers. First, space is tremendously inhospitable and, for now at least, living conditions are likely to be claustrophobic...
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... (Jupiter, Io and Ganymede) and September 1996 (Europa). The portrait of Callisto is from the 1979 flyby of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. Inspiration Does Europe also want independent access to space for future space exploration, not only...
June 2022
Pandemic parallels
... them into its future industrial development as one of a range of measures to prepare humans for these unprecedented voyages. Without such alterations, it is unlikely that humanity will successfully travel into outer space, particularly for long...
April 2025
Maximising returns to Earth - the infinite potential of space
... of speaker participants were Anousheh Ansari (pictured), chief executive, XPRIZE; Dylan Taylor, chairman and chief executive, Voyager Space; Ricardo Conde, President, Portuguese Space Agency; and Lindy Elkins-Tanton, principal investigator of NASA...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
... is the planet Saturn, which has an extensive ring system made up of ice particles, rocks and dust. The Voyager 1 mission discovered that Jupiter also has a thin dusty ring and it has since been discovered that...
April 2026
Robotics is the future of space labour
... simulation environments, culminating in our first campaign to the ISS in 2027 for full-scale testing, in partnership with Voyager. Space has a labour problem. Every other part of the industry - launch, payload, data - has scaled, but...
