January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
...Excursion Module (LEM), and of TV shows and science fiction novels that found their niche against this setting.... condemned to operate in an artificial environment. No matter what science fiction might tease you with, there is not one square kilometre ...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
...out there in the cosmos has long been a staple of science fiction. It should come as no surprise then that these extra-solar... Warwick in the UK and leads the PLATO mission’s Science Management Office. His research focuses on the discovery of ...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
...Sir Arthur Clarke was fond of quoting his fellow science fiction writer Larry Niven and he often cited Niven’s famous...of what might be done to address cosmic hazards. Clearly more science and investigation is needed - but we are not ostriches that ...
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... by Arthur C. Clarke in a 1945 article published in Wireless World magazine, in which the then naval officer and science fiction author proposed their use to create a global communications system. Based on earlier work by a largely forgotten Slovene...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... beyond Earth to establish permanent colonies in space. The ‘Final Frontier’, used to describe space, became a staple of science fiction with the introduction of Star Trek in 1966. In relation to space settlement, it applies exquisitely. As the last...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... in that era, when the concepts of colonising space and utilising space resources were still in the realm of science fiction. Now, with these prospects becoming increasingly real we have to consider a new approach to human action and interaction...
