January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... one of post-colonial guilt and grim forebodings about the future. People tend to want to talk about existential risk, ... I applaud his speech, and urge everyone interested in the future growth and prosperity of humankind to support his broad vision, ...
March 2017
Space is open for business
... problems on Earth. “Incredible technological advances in the past years have lifted a billion people out of poverty,” he claimed. Future steps This event has been the start of a process, and it is not intended to be a one-off. “We want to build...
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...
