March 2026
The imagined sky – power, inequality and the future of space sustainability
... requires examining not only what we do in orbit, but the assumptions we carry into orbit. How we conceptualise the space environment influences what we regulate, what we overlook, and whose interests are protected. This article examines how these...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... operations, and combined with the research efforts of other countries through a Cooperative Research Centre (“CRC”) for Space Environment Management. The CRC is a long-standing model for joint public-private investment in applied research. The CRC...
March 2019
Urgent action needed to avert space debris threat
... operators who value controlled, reliable and efficient data-sharing critical to the safety and integrity of the space environment and RF spectrum. The SDA was founded by commercial satellite operators for the benefit of the satellite community...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... world record for ‘resolution per mass of satellite’. He has recently published Space Traffic Control, a book which describes the measures needed to maintain the space environment and protect satellites from both natural hazards and man-made...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... the astronomical observation of the universe and the physical exploration of the space environment are two sides of the same coin in humankind’s quest to understand ‘outer space’. But in an era when much of this understanding reflects back on our...
21 November 2016
The grandest of canyons is found on Mercury with the aid of MESSENGER
... crater formed by a relatively recent impact – was found using stereo images from NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft. Its discovery reveals important clues as to the geologic history of the...
