February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... health. Today, we are at an historical turning point. As forests burn, cities flood and the world faces unprecedented challenges, this is the moment to contribute bold, shared ambitions and solutions enabled by space. Ambition is a word I use a lot...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
..., we will need to study their integration with the other existing environmental control technologies, which represents a new challenge. Determining the cost and the sustainability of these smaller food-crop production systems will provide critical...
April 2024
Planning, designing and delivering a spaceport
... the 1990s. It is generally acknowledged to be the battleground of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), startups and disruptors, which challenge the way of the old guard with a faster, leaner and profit-minded approach to space-related activity...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... regime for spaceflight in circumstances where belligerents were using space assets to engage in direct conflict - many other challenges arise before such a system could be designed and implemented. The risks need to be assessed and understood; not...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
... research networks will be used to transfer the large volume of science data. The proposed setup introduces a number of challenges that have to be addressed. In particular the fact that the availability and ‘end-to-end’ performance (in terms of delay...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... impacts. In this article Dr Joseph Pelton, a passionate advocate of using space systems to help humanity, provides an overview of the challenging issues we face and offers some innovative solutions that we might do well to heed. Since the Space Age...
