October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... curricula of universities, in the work of large research centres and on the programmes of scientific congresses and conferences. A majority of experts believe that primitive extraterrestrial life-forms are widespread in the universe, although that...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... For a couple of engineers, the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in 2019 opened a window to a world, not too ... responsibly. A busy poster session at the Lunar & Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, in 2019. One of the most efficient ...
May 2024
Prioritising space solutions to accelerate sustainable development
... sustainability frameworks Editor’s note: This article is based on a keynote address given by the author at the UK Space Conference, Belfast, November 2023. Though a predominantly British audience her words have a wider resonance to the worldwide...
September 2026
Ten years of Asgardia - from idea to nation
... – and sets out the ambitions that will shape its second decade. On 12 October 2016 at an international press conference in Paris I announced an idea that many people regarded as improbable, perhaps even impossible. “Now, we have decided to create...
September 2026
Can Starlab offer Europe a future in Earth orbit?
... delegates in Lisbon was buoyant but quietly unsettled. Beneath the polished optimism that often characterises space conferences, a number of harder conversations threaded their way through the corridors of the European Space Economy Summit in early...
13 July 2015
ISS Conference: 2024 plans, LEO development & how CASIS manages risk aversion
... the company’s managing director, Jeff Manber, told the conference on Wednesday. “What NASA is doing with NanoRacks today to encourage...as Duchesne Academy in Houston, whose presenters at the conference were frank about the bad luck they have encountered ...
