July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... be the Planetary Protection Policy of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), although this instrument is restricted to interplanetary biological and organic contamination. The Policy is designed to prevent forward contamination and preserve the...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... will come up empty-handed. But there is another possibility. Microbes on meteorites may travel through interplanetary space or even survive long enough to traverse greater distances through interstellar space. If future explorations or astronomical...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... overall Skylon vehicle, leaving in 2013 to form Hempsell Astronautics Limited. He is a Fellow and past President of the British Interplanetary Society, and a former editor of the Society’s Journal.
October 2020
Open Source Space
...the future. They include small teams working on high altitude missions to global collectives with a vision of interplanetary settlement; training and education platforms to commercial systems; and applications as diverse as biological experiments and...
October 2020
Pandemic impacts - the state of the ground segment
.... Today, it is becoming commonplace for CubeSats to share a launch with even the most expensive and risky interplanetary missions. Similarly, the industry is shifting away from dedicated ground stations to a more practical ‘sharing-economy’ approach...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... the proximate, contested and littoral nature of continental seapower and coastal environments. The dynamics of spacepower in interplanetary space, represented by analogy as an extension from continental to bluewater seapower, may remain the mission...
