October 2025
Europe’s unified vision for space governance and growth
... proposal is the European Resilience from Space (ERS) initiative, a modular system designed to integrate Earth observation (EO), low Earth orbit (LEO) telemetry and navigation, and secure communications (IRIS2). “No single member state can develop...
September 2026
Can Starlab offer Europe a future in Earth orbit?
As the International Space Station nears retirement, commercial successors are racing to define the next era for low Earth orbit. At the 2026 European Space Economy Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, organised by The Economist magazine, Marshall Smith, CEO...
October 2026
After the applause What Artemis II really means
...of human exploration? Given that no-one has travelled beyond low Earth orbit since December 1972, the Artemis II mission deserves a ... of how to do lunar missions, having been stuck in low Earth orbit for more than half a century! After the emotion of ...
November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
... now under development in different parts of the world for humans to move beyond Earth and low Earth orbit to explore and live in space, on the Moon, on Mars or in orbiting colonies. But leaving home is never easy, and space travellers moving out...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... life extension driving much of this revenue. This new market will be realised, first in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) and then medium and low Earth orbit (LEO), through logistics. Those space-based ‘cars’, forever on the road, that have...
June 2018
We live on a planet!
...Apollo 8 were the first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit, see Earth as a whole planet, and witness an Earthrise. ... we do of space is how we rediscover ourselves here on Earth. The Earthrise image from the Moon was certainly one of the...
