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...
September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
... sister of Apollo) and the underlying intent of an international, peaceful and sustainable future in space, was originally inspired by the fictional Star Trek television series in which the ‘Khitomer Accords’, signed in 2293, secured peace between...
29 May 2019
Comets inspire new way to make breathable oxygen on other planets
If humanity wants to settle somewhere beyond our planet then one of the problems we will face is a shortage of molecular oxygen (O2) to breathe. Unfortunately for us, O2 is very hard to come by in the vast expanses of the cosmos. Not only that but ...
31 July 2019
GLEE mission aims to send 500 LunaSats to the Moon
... by NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement under the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, which aims to inspire and educate students in science, technology, engineering and math disciplines. As such, these leaf-sized LunaSats will...
03 April 2020
Newly discovered organisms in ancient solid rock inspire new search for life
Scientists have found microbial life tucked away in 33–104-million-year-old volcanic rock more than 100 metres below the sea floor, a finding that has implications for the possibility of life on Mars and other planetary bodies, where rocks of this ...
02 February 2018
Joe Pelton honoured for contribution to space safety
... field of space systems safety. Joe says he is “honoured and awed” to receive the awards, and they are inspiring him to pursue the LAPSE (The Lagrangian Protector against Solar Ejection) project. Joe pioneered the idea...
