August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... High Altitude Observatory. Her research efforts focus on weather at the space-atmosphere interface. She promotes scientific use of civil, military and commercial space environment observations. She is a retired US Air Force Officer, a Fellow of the...
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...
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...
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...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... of building interplanetary fuel depots and large, radiation-protected, artificial gravity orbital stations near colonised planets. Space settlements on the Moon, Mars, Ceres, Titan and other celestial bodies can be protected from hypogravity, as the...
