November 2020
Space medicine and terrestrial health care
... makes it possible to perform model investigations for the simulation of long-term space missions, for example in isolation, dry immersion and short-arm centrifuge techniques. Space physiology and medicine provide plentiful experimental findings ...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... there was “no place on this small planet” for a billion of its potentially most able people to live “in angry isolation”. The seeds of today’s increasing multipolar nature of orbital spacepower were sown decades ago, and India, China...
February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
... often a part of the financing scheme for the whole space mission. So, the insurance of IOS cannot be considered in isolation from the whole risk management process and must form an inherent part of it. As a result, two sides of the...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... electricity supply is essential for a nation’s security and society’s well-being. Modern infrastructures do not operate in isolation, and are interdependent, meaning that the failure can propagate to each of the various sectors. The catastrophe...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... surface environment for people to be able to move around freely, Mars in his view offers only the prospect of isolated scientific outposts, human-tended mining operations and centres for extreme adventure tourism. Since all other...
May 2021
Forecasting space-weather effects on Earth
... horizontal component of the magnetic field observed at four near-equatorial observatories and several steps are necessary to isolate the ring current signatures in the magnetic recordings. Most of the time, the Dst index fluctuates naturally...
