July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... seeing Earth from space. Author and space philosopher, Frank White, has long advocated developing a new philosophy of space exploration. Here, he explores the overview effect concept and considers its future development. Whilst writing...
October 2020
Open Source Space
... Space Agency (ESA); 200 people registered for the 2019 conference, signalling the growing interest in the philosophy of Open Source Space. Teams with diverse areas of expertise are continuing the academic tradition of experimenting, demonstrating...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
... high-performance missions on larger CubeSats and even microsatellites. The latest payload developed under this engineering philosophy is the Chameleon imager. By sharing a similarly designed image plane as the Gecko, but mated with more capable...
August 2020
Interplanetary spaceflight and restorative justice
... additional stress should be welcomed. About the author Dr Elizabeth Tiarks graduated from Durham University with a degree in philosophy, after which she studied law and qualified as a barrister. Alongside her practice in criminal and regulatory law...
February 2022
A new legal system for space
... nations and bodies. Indeed, for Asgardia to succeed we need to build connections with other jurisdictions, to share our philosophy and demonstrate our credibility. Others need to understand our vision, what we represent, what we hope to achieve and...
April 2026
Rethinking the spacesuit as a biological system
...clarity how engineering assumptions perform when subjected to biological reality. That testing has shaped a design philosophy rooted in use, iteration and adaptation – a framework increasingly suited to the demands of long-duration exploration beyond...
