November 2019
The economic promise of space
.... To make space industry profitable, cheap energy will be required to power the extraction of raw materials from mining sites, as well as to drive the manufacturing facilities that will produce goods from those resources. Materials processing...
April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... million through the next decade. In the post-pandemic world, the current shift to remote and automated mining is only expected to accelerate. Data downlink: EO building steam A ‘cloudification’ of the satellite value chain is underway, and major...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... that experienced by the 33 Chilean miners trapped at Copiapo mine in 2010. The miners stayed fit and mentally healthy for ...key decisions, interestingly it was the leadership strength of the mine foreman, Luis Urzua, that kept the group together and ...
December 2014
Motion capture
...or gas. This is particularly relevant in the UK, where there is still a large amount of surface deformation as a result of past coal mining. Many governments around the world plan to store captured carbon underground in the future – InSAR can be used...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
...investment, which shows us that goals that have not been reached by traditional space industry – serviced space, mining – could theoretically be accomplished by companies that use small spacecraft in their projects. Such companies are replacing space...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... that sought to permanently alter the characteristics of a planet by terraforming. It would also ensure that private companies seeking to mine celestial bodies do not sidestep voluntary guidelines in the hunt for profit. Some suggest that the reason...
