August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
...-based space travel. By the 1920s, considerable writings focused on travel to the Moon and planets and even inspired work on rocketry by the likes of Robert Goddard, Hermann Oberth and Wernher von Braun. But perhaps the...
January 2021
Safeguarding space - lessons from decommissioning in the energy industry
...solutions to these challenges - either technical or political - are thin on the ground. Perhaps it is time to look earthward for inspiration? The authors consider the legacy of terrestrial energy industries and seek to answer the question whether any...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
... contestable domain, playing an essential but supporting role in the messy business of Earth-based politics. Dolman draws inspiration from the works of classic seapower theorists, and applies them to the space environment. Known as ‘bluewater...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... challenging it seems. Stephen Ashworth reviews some of the issues and proposes an interim solution that he hopes will inspire others to act. A huge amount of interest has been generated in recent months by the flight tests of Starship, SpaceX...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... scientific legacy in radio and radar astronomy, as former deputy director Joan Schmelz explains. Although the original inspiration for the giant telescope at the Arecibo Observatory was to study the ionosphere, it was obvious from the...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... pursuit of knowledge for the common benefit of humankind. Yet these feats of science and space exploration, which inspire many, are only the tip of the iceberg of a 70-year-long militarised Global Space Age. Robotic adventures...
