February 2020
Investigation of the Coriolis effect in rotating space platforms
...the ‘Artificial Gravity’ segment of October’s Asgardia Space Science & Investment Congress (ASIC). Arguably, most of us interested in space travel have seen or heard about the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey with its famous rotating spacecraft ‘Discovery...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... pinned heroism medals onto cosmonauts and visited design bureaux and factories, which he still tours. A big space science mission planned in the 1980s, the Spektr R telescope, finally flew in 2011 and made a major contribution to astronomy...
July 2017
Rapidly evolving space industry needs faster UN response
... unlimited access to and free exploration and use of space for new space actors while at the same time maintaining the long-term sustainability of space activities? Since space science and technology are undergoing constant innovation, the governing...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... the increase and the industry is benefiting as a result. In an article based on his presentation at the Asgardia Space Science & Investment Congress (ASIC), Mark Boggett explains why this transition from government to private funding is underway and...
May 2018
Publish or perish: the astronomer’s dilemma
...The other notion is the image of a ‘system’ of science comprising the funding, publication and evaluation system, with values ...between the ‘ideal’ and the ‘system’ notions of science is that scientific discovery is naturally unpredictable where, for...
16 September 2020
Breakthrough Initiatives to fund a study into the possibility of aerial life in Venus' atmosphere
...Initiatives, the privately-funded space science programs founded by science and technology investor and...about how it got there. The next step is to do the basic science needed to thoroughly investigate the evidence and consider how best to confirm and...
