... by space professionals keen to highlight the inadequacies of the Outer Space Treaty or the effect of the Kessler Syndrome on low Earth orbit. The author of The Consequential Frontier (one wonders how many more titles can be squeezed from the...
... era in space travel; it also ends the reliance on the US using Russian rockets to get their astronauts into low Earth orbit - an arrangement that has been in place since NASA's Space Shuttle programme ended in 2011.
...-specialist element of its intended audience, but I know which approach I’d vote for if I was living on a space station in low Earth orbit!
With the rise of NewSpace, increasing commercial activities in low Earth orbit and the long-overdue realisation that space debris could end it all, the topic of space ethics ...
...’s nine chapters consider why we explore and how we organise space exploration, then focus on the individual realms of low Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and the asteroids. The final chapters cover space colonisation, the cost of space...
... within the next 10 years. Skylon, capable of lifting a 15,000 kg payload to low Earth orbits, will require a more sophisticated kind of operating base to that of the sub-orbital spaceplanes. In fact, it is not really a spaceplane at all, but more...