June 2016
A new microgravity research facility for Central Texas and beyond
...: building the drop tower! With significant private foundation grant funding already awarded and serious local civil engineering and construction planning under way that will hopefully be achieved very soon.
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... opportunities are aplenty and, divested of the usual suspicious frames of reference, there exists enormous scope for civil collaboration, cooperation and mutual gain. The emotional baggage of competition, rivalries, conflict and other earthly issues...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... and commercial space companies is no longer anecdotal but part of an increasing trend Missions and markets The civil space agencies of the world conduct activities in three general categories: exploration, planetary science, and Earth science...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... there on how to pursue a future in a commercialised space environment. Similarly, Australia recently began a review of its own civil space regulation: The Space Activities act of 1998, and The Space Activities Regulations of 2001. In seeking...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... the space arena with a strong ideological motivation then it didn’t seem like we were on a trajectory to ever be a spacefaring civilization and be out there among the stars.” Grateful to NASA But entering the space arena was not...
January 2017
Prospects for progress on space security diplomacy
... important an endeavour to be left only in the hands of governments. The wider stakeholder community (the private sector and civil society) needs to get more engaged on behalf of responsible policies that provide for space security for all...
