April 2025
Pioneering human reproduction in space
...improvements are being made to the minilab’s gas-exchange membranes to prevent excessive evaporation of the growth medium. Future refinements will focus on optimising the sensor package for real-time analysis during missions. An imaginary interaction...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
...numerous technical, operational, legal, and political challenges that complicate efforts to preserve the space environment for future generations. Detecting space debris is not easy. Most orbital debris is below 10 cm in size, and this is the hardest...
March 2016
Multi-planet Civilizations in Popular Culture
..., on the other hand, is different, derived from mythological archetypes-arguably helping us to process our past, as opposed to a possible future-and famously set in ‘a galaxy far, far away’, with no planet Earth even mentioned. Both of these classics...
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...
