August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... of said obligation. It is usually the third element that causes the problems for nations. No treaty is signed in isolation, and the geopolitical situation at the time of treaty negotiations is often as significant as the actual activity for which...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... a sustainable civilisation for trillions of years into the future. While an integrated global society on Earth, isolated from its interplanetary environment, is vulnerable to collapse, its diaspora on a solar system - ultimately interstellar - scale...
May 2022
Redefining the space professional – disruptions in the space sector workforce
.... Remote working limits employee interactions, knowledge sharing and collaboration and can often lead to a feeling of isolation, leading to employee retention issues. This new environment also means that there is no effective way of maintaining...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... habitable space, but also the number of social contacts. This prevents the development of conflicts among small, isolated groups. The figure shows some options for parallel construction of Testudo packages and the location of the...
January 2023
Is human space exploration DOOMED?
... are such hotbeds from one another? If the Earth’s biosphere is unique to our observable universe, we are doomed to isolation. But if our observable universe contains many such biospheres, there would be a real possibility of encountering fellow...
October 2023
Slovenia’s footprint in space
.... “Single event effect (SEE) immunity, innovative error mitigation techniques, sophisticated three-level fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR) policy, redundancy on all critical functions and thoughtful component selection ensure robustness...
