October 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
... 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...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... 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...
November 2019
Strategic role of government in space commercialisation
... 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...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
...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...
January 2023
Evolving human space culture – reflections on humanity’s cultural potential in space
... 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 ...
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... 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...
