January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... competition rather than military struggle (as exhibited by the continuous proliferation of industrial, infrastructural and commercial space activity), the belief that the US is so far ahead in terms of military capabilities and advanced technologies...
February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
...… and, of course, debris mitigation. It is clear from this that IOS includes a full range of already well-understood space activities, as well as those that are completely new and which will have to be taken into account in the risk...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
As Douglas Adams notes in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, “Space is big. Really big.” Although humanity’s space aspirations may be great, most of our space activities in the short term are going to take place in the relatively tiny near-Earth ...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... environment is increasingly “Congested, Contested and Competitive”. Although it was always recognised that commercial space activities contributed to the “three Cs”, the implicit focus from a US military perspective has always been on the extent...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... the realm of small satellite manufacturing, launch and service provision. To meet the demand for this broadening space activity, whether it be powering robotic miners on the Moon or monitoring peat bogs in the Highlands of Scotland, the sector needs...
June 2022
Pandemic parallels
... isolation and lack of privacy. Conflict is a part of human existence and both polar exploration and human space activity have demonstrated that long duration missions of exploration are no exception, even when underpinned with training. Domestic...
