The ‘Artemis Accords’ - a series of principles and processes whereby NASA and space agencies from other countries can agree a common set of principles covering how the Moon is to be explored and its resources utilised - was revealed in May 2020. ...
As humanity begins to break out into space, the biggest obstacle we must overcome is not gravity or physics. It is ourselves. The outcome of the first Space Race illustrated the truth of this. Using only the technology of the time we were able to ...
The UK’s stated goal is to increase its share of the global space market to 10 percent by 2030, equating to an annual value of around £40 billion but, considering how many countries are competing for slices of a very lucrative pie, that is an ...
Like the app revolution enabled by the iPhone, data from space can enable a revolution of applications to help us build a sustainable future, to understand our planet and make better business decisions. The author argues that the ‘iPhone moment’ for...
Warnings that the world needed to prepare itself for a global pandemic were largely ignored prior to COVID-19. In the same way potential threats from space weather to an increasingly technology-dependent world are still only paid cursory attention, ...
Space tourism took a great leap forward on 11 July, when Richard Branson flew as ‘Astronaut 001’ on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital tourism vehicle, VSS Unity. The Unity 22 mission, launched from New Mexico’s Spaceport America and piloted ...