March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... as one of humanity’s strongest drivers. “To be risk adverse is not the right thing for the future,” he states. “So we need disruptive ideas and we have to allow them.” During his tenure as ESA DG Woerner expects to witness significant break-throughs...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... with equivalent scientific results). These ambitious projects raise such important questions such as whether technological disruptions for launchers will be needed or not. Will, as some of Arianespace’s competitors contend, reusable rockets play...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... destroy coastal settlements, while those that fall on land may easily destroy a large city or an entire country, disrupt telecommunications, energy and other systems, destroy nuclear facilities, chemical plants and toxic waste depositories, etc...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
... of innovation to wider sectors of industry and society. Fresh emphasis is being placed on the investigation of potentially disruptive and game-changing concepts, enhancing open innovation mechanisms to bring in non-space and academic partners, and...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... is that the recommendations that emerge are agreed to by all parties, which makes it difficult to reopen and thus disrupt the debate at the political level. This positive assessment of the IADC model and the subsequent COPUOS...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... world at large, even a day without satellite systems could be devastating and bring about the possibility of serious disruption and damage of unimaginable extent, scope and nature. One US Air Force General is reported to have stated that...
