August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
...top of the growing number of Middle East countries acquiring high-resolution Earth observation satellites, there is a disruptive commercial phenomenon in satellite imagery also underway. Companies such as DigitalGlobe, based in the United States, and...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
.... The prime strategic agendas of space agencies have been on cruise control for too long and need to be disruptive. Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiiglitz recently addressed the leadership of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... international law, has armed commercial actors who have the capacity to disrupt the status quo. Larry Page, who co-founded Google in 1998... armed commercial actors who have the capacity to disrupt the status quo And while Christopher Columbus famously...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... public to learning that there is other intelligence in the universe? Although many imagine that the news would be disruptive, possibly to the extent of threatening civil order and provoking a crisis for organised religion, there is little reason...
October 2017
Third quarter phenomenon - the psychology of time in space
...prepare for missions and countermeasures in place to avoid disruptions that could occur during their time in space. However...phases of a mission seem to be a risk point for disrupted functioning. It is important to understand at what point the ...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
... things in space, we believe this type of infrastructure will be quite disruptive, because in a few years we’re not going to be sending most...using launch vehicle upper stages, then we are fully disrupting the way we live and work in space, ultimately ...
