April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
...will affect, say, a twelve-year-old girl having a growth spurt. Another issue at every stage from conception to adolescence ... for. But there isn’t. When we talk about populations and growth in human settlements, we often talk at a high level, with...
25 June 2025
UK government unveils industrial strategy
... strategy. The Industrial Strategy names space as a ‘frontier’ industry alongside 10 others “where investment supports both economic growth and security”. The space sector sits across two of the detailed sector plans, ‘Advanced Manufacturing’ and...
October 2015
Space debris, Kessler Syndrome, and the unreasonable expectation of certainty
... and Nicholas Johnson in 2006 we now understand that the continued growth of the debris population is likely in the future even if ... launch activity is halted. The reason for this sustained growth, and for the concern of many satellite operators who ...
October 2015
From post-humanity to fractals: is human space exploration doomed?
...cm3), the Galaxy (10-24 g/cm3) and the observable universe (2 x 10-31 g/cm3). We can assume that with an unlimited growth of the volume of fragments of the Universe, their density approaches zero. The hypothesis of a fractal universe results in this...
February 2016
Shifting Space Perspectives: Artistic Research as Connective Research Area
.... Qualitative relationships are quantified and, in the case of Growing As Building, architectural visions of the self-growing house, growth principles and biological role models were related to each other. A set of first experiments was derived from...
February 2016
How to Build Planets
... a self-induced dust pile-up where a complex interplay between growth and migration induces dust self-accumulation. Basically, instead of the... overcome the radial drift and inefficient grain growth problem. Consequently, some researchers are now ...
