March 2015
Space weather: the public & policy
... of these technologies include the power grid, civil aviation and many satellite applications. The threat posed...the loss of electric power. Expert concerns about impacts on civil aviation and GNSS occasionally got some attention but interest quickly...
June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
... ton. In 2013, the DHL parcel service tested a drone for delivering medicine. Europe sees the emergence of civil applications of Unmanned Aircraft (UA) or Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) as a source of economic growth and jobs. In March 2015...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... for Transport (DfT) and CAA legal experts classify spaceplanes as ‘aircraft’, meaning that the existing body of civil aviation safety regulation would apply to spaceplanes. But at this stage of their development commercial spaceplanes cannot comply...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
...Intelligence (SETI) has always tacitly assumed that any civilization that it might detect would be far beyond our ...star may not be so far outside our grasp, and thus any civilization we detect might not be so far beyond us. The information content ...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... is we stay on Earth forever, and some eventual extinction event wipes us out. The alternative is to become a space-faring civilization and a multi-planet species, which I hope you agree that is the right way to go.” This is Musk’s primary...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
...operations in cislunar space between Earth and Moon, it is increasingly critical to establish a common set of principles to govern the civil exploration and use of outer space. International space agencies that join NASA in the Artemis programme will...
