March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
..., isolated from its interplanetary environment, is vulnerable to collapse, its diaspora on a solar system - ultimately interstellar - scale promises to strengthen it through diversification, and to preserve all that we value of human heritage for...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
... successful career as a software developer and DevOps in the finance and GIS industries, he presented his ideas about interstellar exploration at the first Hundred Year Starship symposium, organised jointly by NASA and DARPA. In 2016, he began...
May 2024
DNA across the universe - the new Noah’s Ark?
... Proving Platform’ and the event was reported in the media as “the beginning of a programme to explore technologies for interstellar migration”. Each sample had its own sealed capsule intended to provide protection from radiation and the...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... do, but let me pause before continuing and make myself very clear: there are no utopian visions or interstellar daydreams or biographies of ‘rockstar’ billionaires in this story about space. This is a story that is as raw as it is grounded. It doesn...
01 July 2015
Ceres, Dawn, mysterious bright spots, and exploring the solar system
... unlikely, the mystery of Ceres’ bright spots drives home the point that even as we contemplate the possibility of interstellar voyages , our own solar system is still in many ways uncharted territory for humanity. And it’s not as if Ceres...
28 July 2015
Yale’s Jeffrey Kenny on cosmic wind in the NGC 4921 galaxy
....” Cosmic wind is something else entirely. We have known about cosmic winds for a while. They can sweep interstellar material from a galaxy, thus preventing the formation of future stars. How such processes happen isn’t often...
