June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
... thermal control subsystem. The harsh thermal environment that BepiColombo is going to face has posed unprecedented technical challenges; not only was it necessary to develop and test new materials able to withstand the extreme environments of space...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... helpful for industry because the newest technical challenges often result in more expensive and less reliable...Japanese space industry because there is too much risk in challenging the NewSpace economy with a small satellite constellation or recycling...
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...
