July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
...insurance and financial transactions. The economic potential of the new applications and services that will exploit space infrastructure appear unlimited. This should drive opportunities for satellite builders and providers, and leverage even greater...
October 2019
Space-based cybersecurity challenges for NATO
... provision of data and services across all domains and any vulnerability in space infrastructure will likely spread from one to another. The critical interdependency between space and other domains therefore increases the threat of cyber risks, which...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... strategic reasons for many states to develop anti-satellite weapons and other methods of disrupting and harassing space infrastructure. In many ways the 2010s picked up where the superpowers left off in the 1980s with an increased tempo...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... leave Cambodia open to China’s whims. Ultimately, China’s more recent strategy of building and operating its own space infrastructure, and giving countries the option to utilise it, undeniably gives these other countries more options. Rather than...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
.... This demand will manifest the meme of new concepts based on strong tethers, including space elevators, as enabling engineering cornerstones of space infrastructure. Galactic Harbour concept with more than one elevator and commercial use of the far...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... form of reliable and international authority that would guarantee the responsible on-going operation of such a key international space infrastructure. The design of the ISS was far from easy. There were at least a dozen different concepts and...
