... 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...
..., 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... also dictates a smallest tether size that can be climbed on. Computer graphic of a Space Elevator tether terminus platform. Challenges and risks Space debris is a high risk for a static elevator, as anything that doesn’t follow an exactly periodic...