November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
... of Sciences, a recipient of the Magellanic Premium Medal (awarded for major contributions in the field of navigation, astronomy, or natural philosophy), and has Asteroid 9729 named in her honour.
March 2026
Humanity – the potential of space
... ecosystem that sustains us, has more than one home? As I discussed earlier, Elon Musk has framed this philosophy as SpaceX’s central mission: making humanity a multiplanet species within his lifetime, with Mars as the first step...
April 2026
Future-building in space - sustainability as first principle
... political processes in the city or country where you live and how they have been directly shaped by philosophies spanning literally thousands of years. Think of climate change and how communities that experience increased wildfires or floods...
18 October 2016
Australian Defence space capability gets a boost as it gets ready to launch its Buccaneer CubeSats
... sense and meet national needs,” added Frater. Buccaneer is one aspect that will help with this philosophy as it helps pave the way for Australia’s home grown talent to take advantage of this rapidly transforming technology...
29 March 2017
SpaceX set to reuse rocket for the first time on Friday
... already been launched last year to send cargo to the International Space Station last year. The company’s philosophy of keeping costs of space flight down by reusing its rockets, will finally be realised – to some degree – on Friday, as the...
26 June 2019
LightSail 2 gets ready to make its debut in space
... by nothing more than the power of photons, may not have ultimately started with Carl Sagan – the philosophy behind light sails started as early as 1608 with Johannes Kepler – but the well-known American astronomer...
