May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
.... It was fire and thunder. Many were gathered on the terraces of the nearby buildings of the spaceport to witness history in the making - applauding, cheering and screaming with joy and excitement. The rocket disappeared into a dark...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
I astronomy, there’s nothing more tantalising than an unexplained signal. Throughout astronomical history whenever something has gone bump in the night, it has hinted towards a new phenomenon, be it pulsars or gamma-ray ...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... by a mercantile society’s unstoppable momentum. Blade Runner had begun... probably one of the best opening scenes in the history of cinema. To be fair, all the ingredients were there for a fantastic movie. First, an excellent book on which the...
November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
We are in the midst of a transformational era in the history of spaceflight. What was once an activity purely limited to governments and national space agencies is now experiencing a flourish of ...
January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
In the history of humankind there have been two major economic revolutions. First, the agricultural revolution of roughly 10,000 years ...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
... in our daily lives and has played a prominent role in the spirituality of people of many cultures across human history. It is only in recent decades that we have begun to realise the economic importance of the Moon. One of the first...
