March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
... tested ion propulsion and other high-risk technologies, helped bring ion propulsion from the domain of science fiction to science fact. Dawn is one of DS1’s beneficiaries, and being the first spacecraft ever built to orbit two target...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... not too soon to be thinking - even if just in science fictional terms for no other reason than it’s good to develop the ...include ‘The Postman’, ‘Earth’‘and ‘Existence’. His non-fiction book about the information age is ‘The Transparent Society’. An...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... life on Earth as doctors, engineers and inventors. Today’s students don’t view living and working in space or on Mars as science fiction, they see it as the future. SpaceShipOne nestled safely beneath her mothership, the White Knight and (below...
April 2025
Space Elevators - a role in planetary defence?
...km (Figure 2). Figure 2: Relative Speeds Space Elevators. The science fiction author Arthur C Clarke imagined the space elevator as a bridge... 170,000 tonnes/year to GEO and beyond. Science fiction author Arthur C Clarke imagined the space elevator as...
20 October 2016
Asgardia: The New Space Nation
... project only builds upon existing competencies and that is what takes the project out of the realm of science fiction into reality. At the very least, it provides an alternate platform for human survival in case of an earthly catastrophe. The...
29 March 2018
The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth
... the situation perfectly in his opening paragraph: “The search for life in the Universe, once the domain of science fiction, is now a robust research program with a well-defined roadmap, from studying the extremes of life on Earth to exploring...
