April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... and serves as a reviewer for several peer-review international journals. Alan Perera-Webb is a director at Commercial Space Technologies (CST), London, UK. During his nine years at CST he has managed market, trajectory and facilities studies for...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
...Levy 9 hitting Jupiter in 1994 are a reminder of the danger faced by Earth (JPL/NASA/STScI) Developing space technologies Despite our vulnerability to hyper object risks, such as over-population, climate change, artificial intelligence, super viruses...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
... - which serves US government, commercial and international customers worldwide - provides everything from entire spacecraft to specific space technologies and individual parts and components. The company has been involved in more than 450 successful...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
...” and the “province of all mankind”. The intersection of human rights and space can be interpreted through two means. Firstly, the use of space technologies and applications to support the realisation and maintenance of human rights obligations...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... power and latent economic power to be deployed for the use of America’s most threatening potential adversaries. Military space technologies, once the purview of only the United States in the 1990s, have proliferated for decades and are...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... place within China. Here, Josephine Millward examines China’s space strategy, technological progress and the country’s nascent but rapidly growing commercial sector. As a space technology investor and former Wall Street defence analyst, Ms Millward...