October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
...collaboration coming together to build upon science and technology used on Earth and in LEO on the ISS Orion future exploration mission. James In 2006, the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) issued a report: ‘Information...
November 2018
Being human in space
... - just as we try to simulate the Moon and Mars - could be productive in helping develop a virtual sensory environment for future long distance space travellers. Astronauts and isolation experiment participants frequently report what they miss and...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
... space. More satellites will be launched, and this will inevitably lead to more debris. In order to mitigate potential future debris, we propose that all satellites in mid- to high-LEO be pre-engineered with a lightweight docking plate to facilitate...
May 2019
A matter of perspective
... have no overview, no meta-perspective. In 2011 when I first began my ‘outer space’ series, I realised that in the near future we would be seeing the start of a period of enormous advances in the space industry. And in the meantime, the privatisation...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
...My point here is not to state specific, quantified figures, but to indicate a general trend: in the not too distant future we will outgrow our planet’s current capability to sustain us without some major technological advances. Limitless clean energy...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
...Resilience and Sustainability, and a preliminary Masterplan. After the first workshop they started to develop a vision for a future settlement on the Moon and began to work on a hypothetical scenario, addressing the questions of what would happen and...
