January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
...world to own and market its own hardware on the International Space Station. In doing so it faced a number of philosophical challenges, in particular because the notion of a private company wanting to own research hardware, market the results and set...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... uncertainty regarding a final vertical orbital launcher option for the Swedish Esrange launch site, mostly because of challenges associated with overflight of Norway. Although Italy has made a decision that its airport in Taranto should become...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
...China followed this, in December 2018, with the more challenging Chang’e 4 mission, which deployed its Yutu-2 rover...lunar lava tubes, which a traditional wheeled rover might find challenging. Lava tubes are subsurface tunnels, formed by basaltic lava ...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... reduced global population. As Arthur C Clarke wrote, “The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe – or nothing. […] The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race...
