June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
..., it takes a week to get to the Moon and back, whereas visiting an NEA group asteroid takes years. From an investment point of view, due to the possibility of quick equipment depreciation, mining on the Moon is potentially more lucrative than...
June 2017
European space business incubators and accelerators
... exclusively on the space industry. This clustering of young businesses fuels the growing appetite for space technology investment from business angels and venture capital funds. Well sign-posted and highly visible, they help...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... Baseline Interferometry and global positioning. However, the world’s most expensive clock - the European Space Agency is investing US$50 million in this experiment - will benefit the physics community as it will also be used to test the uncertainty...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
... hydrogen tanks for environmentally friendly cars. The space industry is currently experiencing rapid growth in relation to investment and commercial interest as the possibilities and opportunities it wields become more widely known. Increasingly...
February 2020
Surviving bacteria in space
... for future missions to the Moon and Mars. This article, based on a presentation at the Asgardia Space Science & Investment Congress (ASIC) in Darmstadt, Germany, in October, explains some of the issues and describes the state of play in this...
February 2020
Investigation of the Coriolis effect in rotating space platforms
... this article, Tigran Mkhoyan elaborates on his presentation in the ‘Artificial Gravity’ segment of October’s Asgardia Space Science & Investment Congress (ASIC). Arguably, most of us interested in space travel have seen or heard about the movie 2001...
