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...
September 2026
Ten years of Asgardia - from idea to nation
... the Space Age I have sometimes compared the next phase of space exploration with the great sea voyages of earlier centuries. Those sailors set out without the maps, navigation systems or certainty we take for granted...
October 2026
Winning the Space Race at home
... by space philosopher and writer Frank White, and partly by the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ photograph of Earth taken by Voyager 1 space probe from about six billion kilometres away. It represents the desire as well as the need to get...
07 June 2015
A quick(er) jaunt to Mars?
... example. In spite of this potentially welcome news, it still helps to remember that even with a shortened travel time a voyage to Mars isn’t likely to be a picnic , as The New Yorker has recently reminded us in an excellent long-read by Tom Kizzia...
01 July 2015
Ceres, Dawn, mysterious bright spots, and exploring the solar system
..., the mystery of Ceres’ bright spots drives home the point that even as we contemplate the possibility of interstellar voyages , our own solar system is still in many ways uncharted territory for humanity. And it’s not as if Ceres hasn...
