February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
... the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) from 1987 to June 1990. Acknowledgment This article is based on a paper ‘EUMETSAT’s future Low Earth Orbit satellite programmes provide continuity of observations and data services’ presented by Marc Cohen at the...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... to explore the world around them and human-centred design (HCD) will play an increasingly important role in future space exploration. To enable long-duration space missions, we need to advance space habitat designs so that in addition to focusing...
July 2019
Next steps in human space exploration
... into space - George Whitesides What excites me about the future of sub-orbital spaceflight is that we’ll be able to ...workforce in 20 years, will Mars still be 20 years in the future as it always seems to have been? Dimitry Loskutov I can’t tell...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
..., CEO Jeff Manber reflects on the company’s pioneering commercial journey and looks at challenges that lie in the future. The business model of Nanoracks has essentially been to grow, not through increasing investment but by building increasingly...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... developments in the sector and looking at what the future may hold for Chinese international space cooperation. In recent.... The paper also notes several “Key Areas for Future [International] Cooperation”, which include global governance of outer...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
...facilities. The most innovative aspect of NASA’s approach to future exploration and science programmes is to de-orbit the ISS and... A Space Odyssey gave a dazzling view of such a future in the 1960s. Billionaire Robert Bigelow, who inherited the Budget...
