... used around 30 satellites at an altitude of about 20,000 km and a local receiver to locate a vehicle’s position on Earth and in airspace. Civil aviation found that GPS had a major advantage over traditional radar navigation and in the 1980s it was...
... and communications networks, artificial intelligence, robotics and the ability to go into space, the rate of change in human civilization has increased exponentially. The ‘Super Month’ graphic compresses time since the age of the Southern Ape...
... goals identified above: reducing the costs and accelerating the development and procurement of systems needed for civil space exploration; and fostering the growth of private space markets. Second, we must identify challenges to undertaking these...
...some would argue it has actually stagnated and even regressed. Space is still dominated by government programmes, both civil and military, while communication satellites – a market that is successful because it moves information, rather than material...
... and thrive as we establish new and unique civilizations in our space settlements and explorations. The Expedition... Furthermore, we know there’s at least one advanced civilization, with a propensity for destroying species, ecosystems, atmospheres ...
... 3, was not launched until 1964, but this prime orbital real-estate was soon exploited for civil applications including telephone communications, direct-broadcast TV and weather satellites, and for military missions including missile...