September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... this affect our ability to graduate commercially past Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond? The real game-changers in the launcher market might be at the larger end of the spectrum, most notably Blue Origin’s New...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... academic exercise. The future of our species is on the line. Be it the military already playing cat and mouse games in the silence above, to those who see mining the solar system’s resources as the next gold rush...
January 2021
How the UK space sector is levelling up with support from its science facilities
...£75 million in investment and achieving a 92 percent success rate. This has seen cutting-edge space technology applied in game-changing new products and services, embracing everything from regenerative healthcare to sustainable animal feed and remote...
February 2021
The Space Monuments Men
...; I was wrong. Fortunately, I had shot a full feature documentary seven years earlier about the first basketball game on the aircraft carrier, Carl Vinson. It was a legendary affair with 8,000 military personnel on the deck of the...
February 2021
Supporting sustainable lunar development
... services that enable both commercial activities and scientific research. Another prototype idea is a multi-player online game that simulates the LDC model to test how players would act as different types of participants (or non-participants...
March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
Earth observation data derived from satellites has evolved considerably from its roots in the early weather satellites of the 1960s. Geoff Smith considers this evolution and what the exponential increase in data means for the planet. Our love affair...
