February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
... what something like the Asgardia space nation can do to promote better awareness of cosmic hazards and new planetary defence initiatives? After all, many organisations - such as the Secure World Foundation, the International Association for the...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... that if all the space agencies of the world were to be restructured with a top administrator assigned the task of planetary defence against cosmic hazards, and if military space programmes were similarly restructured, then more rapid progress could...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... recognise how the space agencies of the world have failed us. Of all the activities space agencies undertake, planetary defence is an essential task that has not been fulfilled. NASA could set an example by creating an Associate Administrator for...
July 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... and Development (OECD) and suggested that a new economic activity for our scientists and engineers should be ‘Planetary Defence’. It is time for those leading our space agencies to consider what technologies they might conceive and implement...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... of permafrost near the surface. Furrows feed meltwater into a channel that’s cut into the crater wall. Planetary defence by high-powered laser: material ablated off a would-be impactor alters its trajectory by conservation of momentum, to avert...
May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
...Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG) to help coordinate a better defence against asteroids, we are a long way from a global space governance system for planetary defence. In fact, as UNISPACE+50 prepares to convene in 2018 what is striking is that...
