August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...; who should be assigned as the investigatory authority and who should administer any resulting punishment? Whilst popular science fiction tends to give unlimited authority to the mission commander, this is problematic for two reasons. The first...
November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
We are in the midst of a transformational era in the history of spaceflight. What was once an activity purely limited to governments and national space agencies is now experiencing a flourish of innovation led by entrepreneurial private sector ...
March 2018
Shifting lines and new horizons in Earth observation markets
... market development scenarios are useful tools to forecast possible impacts on the EO landscape and the following three ‘science-fiction’ scenarios are ‘extreme’ options. Scenario 1: Solid revenues from the VHR data for the intelligence community...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... the Earth is (as well as his own hopes and ambitions). We might see this essay as a very early form of science fiction. More recently, but still before Gagarin’s flight, Theodore L Thomas wrote a short story called ‘The Far...
