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...
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 ...
