January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... planet with a single orbiting moon will create the feeling of home. In order to understand the in-space experience of journeying out into deep space, we must think about home the same way as those astronauts. NASA’s pathway to Mars. Preparing...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... regained. Apollo engineers are long since retired or dead, and with them their unique institutional knowledge of deep space human space travel. Arguably, China is conducting the current lunar race from a better operational position than the...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... total number of electrons the signal has traversed in the diffuse plasma that fills interstellar and intergalactic space, called the dispersion measure. This smearing of the radio signal due to electrons in the cosmic medium is analogous...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... the telescope is preparing for up to 20 years of deep-space observations. JWST will peer at the hidden infrared universe,... is moving further away from everything else - the space between galaxies is stretching, increasing year on year. Combined...
September 2025
AI cybersecurity - challenges in space
.... The stakes are undeniably high, encompassing the integrity of critical global infrastructure, the success of ambitious deep-space missions and the safety of future human endeavours beyond Earth. Addressing these AI-specific vulnerabilities is not...
January 2021
Medical professionals and long-duration spaceflight
...has shown the significant value of including a health worker in the team. When it comes to long-term space missions – especially those in deep space - the inclusion of a doctor on the team should be seen as ‘normal’, not least because of the positive...
