May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
.... The ESD TA positions have been filled by Senior Executive Service (SES) and Senior Level/Scientific or Professional (ST/SL) civil service personnel who retained independence because their reporting paths and performance reviews are all within...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
... to include horizontal launch craft that mimic aircraft that use airspace. It is not intending to replace the existing Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) regulatory framework for these craft, rather it will augment the regulation of airspace up to the...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
... point of no return in the development of our technocratic civilization. After that, nothing would be able to restore the disturbed ...the degradation of the human race. After all, our Earthly civilization lives under the principle of ‘mould in a Petri dish...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... radiation environment, would it be possible today to effectively warn those who need to act to protect important military and civil assets? And, if so-warned, could effective actions be taken in such a short time? Knowing the impacts of the 4 August...
October 2019
Asgardia’s calendar and its role in space industrialisation strategy
... space. The standard 13-month reference calendar of the space state of Asgardia is a purely civil neutral calendar for the first time in the history of civilization. It does not serve any religious groupd or political parties. It is designed to serve...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
...lines indicate (from left): sunset, the end of civil, nautical and astronomical twilights, and the opposite series of... number of visible satellites decreases as twilight advances from civil to nautical, from nautical to astronomical, and from ...
