August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
... an extraterrestrial trail of tears. OpinionIn a still from Georges Méliès’ 1902 adventure film Le voyage dans la Lune a group of lunar explorers is attacked and brought before the king of the Moon’s subterranean inhabitants, the Selenites. Since the...
01 January 2020
What has been in 2019 and what is to come in 2020!
...Chang’e 4 kick started the fourth phase of China's lunar exploration program, the nation laid out its plans for future ... kinds of technological devices will be on hand to help explore our Solar System, such as drones, lasers, wafercrafts, Marscopters...
08 May 2020
China's prototype spacecraft lands successfully on Earth
... tasks. It can be used both for low-Earth orbit missions and also for deep-space exploration, such as manned lunar exploration, CMSA said. Meanwhile, an experimental cargo return craft designed to transport equipment that was launched as a secondary...
14 June 2021
G7 nations commit to the safe and sustainable use of space
... support (Anastasia Stepanova), Autonomous robots in space (Saber Fallah & Tatiana Farcas), Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration (Natalia Larrea Brito & Charlotte Croison), Is NewSpace really so new? (Walter Peeters), The next...
10 June 2019
NASA opens ISS to space tourists
... to be defunded by the government by 2025. NASA will continue research and testing in low-Earth orbit to inform its lunar exploration plans, while also working with the private sector to test technologies, train astronauts and strengthen the...
26 February 2018
Handbook of Space Law
... exclusively to governments, it is fast becoming relevant to commercial enterprises and individuals. Topics such as asteroid mining, lunar exploration and space tourism have seen to that. Rusty Schweickart, Apollo 9 astronaut and co-founder of the...
