June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
... and international cooperation but were also key to the technological advancement of space technologies. Today, the inherent challenges for humans in the space environment provide at least some of the inspiration for the concept of autonomous...
November 2019
Space kaleidoscope - towards a genuine multi-messenger exploration
...to the Moon and to venture even further, we should be asking: what image of humanity do we want to project onto new space environments? Is it a narrow picture or an inclusive one? What are the ethical and societal values that we want to identify with...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
...-based politics. Dolman draws inspiration from the works of classic seapower theorists, and applies them to the space environment. Known as ‘bluewater’ theories, they draw heavily on the history of island powers such as Britain, that engaged with...
29 September 2022
UK gives space junk clearance missions priority funding
... derelict satellites from LEO. The Clearing the LEO Environment with Active Removal (CLEAR) mission, which will ...satellites launched last year alone, the need to safeguard the space environment for the benefit of everyone on Earth has never been...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
..., the main ethical issue here is that of sustainability and protection of the space environment. One of the main objections to the commercialisation of space exploration is the risk of repeating the overexploitation known from human history on Earth...
09 February 2021
Norfolk company targets suborbital market
... from Raptor Aerospace is on reforming the suborbital spaceflight market by providing short-duration access to space environments. This kind of space access has traditionally been used by scientific researchers in order to collect data and carry out...
