October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... research the governance needed in a developing space environment inhabited by humans, and the role private corporations play in establishing space colonies and their laws and rules. Similar to historic constructs of overseas colonisation such as the...
29 February 2016
Missing matter still lost, as Fast Radio Burst not quite what it seems say researchers
... Radio Bursts (FRBs) due to the lightening speed of the pulses or bursts, are dispersed according to a precise physical law and this dispersion is a key observable quantity which, in conjunction with a redshift measurement (a method used to tell the...
14 June 2021
G7 nations commit to the safe and sustainable use of space
... relevant.” Simpson says that, in the absence of robust, internationally agreed and long-term sustainability laws and guidelines, it is doubtful that commercial space companies - and some state players - can be relied on to police themselves in the...
December 2014
A door closes
..., Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov shot back, in formal remarks and interviews, accusing the US and its western partners of running roughshod over international law and democratic principles in an effort to achieve global hegemony. Meanwhile, no end...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
... niche to the technosphere outside the biosphere will ensure, for the latter, preservation and development according to the laws and directions formed over billions of years of evolution, as well as the harmonious interaction of the community...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... congressional discourse, annual budgets, fictional representations, the narratives promoted by leading commercial space companies, space law and social media, to tease apart answers to the questions posed above. Sometimes this story is full of love...