January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
...1960s were in part deliberate covers for developing essential military space technologies such as more capable missiles, nuclear warheads, and spy satellites. Professional communities refer to the civil and military uses of such technologies as ‘dual...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... challenges: the threat of total annihilation of the human race in a nuclear Third World War and the threat of the ‘destruction of the human ...problem of creating in a very short period of time a nuclear missile shield and the start of a wide range of ...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... them to near-Earth orbit. However, in the project under consideration here, there is no need to use shuttles with nuclear engines, as thermochemical engines will suffice. It may not be easy to work with the material on the surface of asteroids...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... Observatory (SDO) Earth is a constantly bombarded not just by solar radiation but by cosmic radiation originating from the nuclear reactions in stars, from novae and supernovae and even pulsars. Recent experience and scientific studies suggest...
March 2016
Multi-planet Civilizations in Popular Culture
...’s ‘Friendship One’, set on a planet suffering from nuclear winter that came about as the result of the planet... Voyager has the necessary technology to ‘fix’ the planet’s nuclear apocalypse, the intense yearning of some among the native population ...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
...example, the international community has relied heavily on high-resolution Earth observation satellites to monitor the nuclear and ballistic missile activities of the closed society of North Korea. Similarly, environmental monitoring satellites allow...
