August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
...to collect data instead of tasking a sensor network to collect information in order to answer a specific question. Finally, scientific discovery and operational innovation has been inhibited by the lack of a common framework that employs state-of-the...
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
Unless some highly disruptive technological discoveries emerge, access to space will always remain a significant bottleneck for the global space industry. As demonstrated by the ...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
... and imagination. System reliability is essential to the success of a mission but the external environment is a source of continuous discovery and surprises – otherwise why would we call it ‘exploration? – and to cope with this the system requires...
October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
... microbial life could cover extensive regions of subsurface Mars. The question of ‘is there life on Mars’ is as old as the discovery of the Red Planet itself and to this day it still remains unanswerable. However, we may be closer to establishing the...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... with its single life-bearing world? For those of us who want to actually visit in person, the recent discovery of Proxima Centauri b gives some cause for optimism. Orbiting the nearest star to the Sun, this is the...
November 2018
Connecting and collaborating for innovation
... skills. Harwell Campus hosts several large national facilities that are used for a broad spectrum of scientific discovery, and is populated by a wide range of organisations in the public, commercial and academic sectors, making it an ideal location...
