January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
... future settlers and will eventually be manufactured at their new interplanetary homes. Space will present a whole raft of challenges for alcohol production. When European settlers arrived in the Americas they found a continent teeming with life...
June 2018
We live on a planet!
...kind of peaceful and successful solutions to our most complex challenges right here on Spaceship Earth. In the simplest of ...everyone will go a long way to helping us overcome all of our challenges right here on Earth. I ask all of you to please take...
June 2018
Striding through space
...‘Hoot’ Gibson through the window of the Space Shuttle Challenger, the iconic image of McCandless’ white space-suited figure...‘plano’ portion of the spectacles.” Shuttle launch Space Shuttle Challenger was launched on mission STS-41B on 3 February 1984 ...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
.... The difficulties of sending even robotic probes are daunting enough, and sending living human colonists is a formidable challenge indeed. Artist’s concept of 51 Pegasi b, which was discovered in October 1995. The giant planet is about half the...
January 2019
Industry 4.0 will revolutionise the space market
...space industry, some market segments are facing major challenges. Currently, most manufacturing processes in the space...from single-item production to mass production faces several challenges. NewSpace companies focus on the application of cross-sector...
May 2019
Unlocking the full potential of Earth observation
.... But getting this data back to Earth is a huge challenge. Radio frequency (RF) technology has hardly changed since the days ...costing no more than a few million dollars. The real challenge for small satellites is getting the data they collect back ...
