April 2025
Pioneering human reproduction in space
... the pioneers tackling this complex issue is SpaceBorn United, a Netherlands-based company leading early research into space procreation. In this article, CEO Dr Egbert Edelbroek shares insights into the groundbreaking journey his company – alongside...
April 2026
Future-building in space - sustainability as first principle
...goals for achieving sustainable development here on Earth. It is interesting to consider how this sustainability framework can be adapted to space, in order to help us consider the needs of those future, off-Earth generations. Some may argue that the...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... abandoning of the international institutions that remained, until the mid-1970s, the global centre for space diplomacy. For space-related affairs, the most important of such institutions is the UN (United Nations), particularly its Committee on the...
August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
... exploitation’ has something of a negative hue predisposing opinions on the subject. Similarly, neither ‘use of outer space’ or ‘space exploration’ encompass any commercial motive, as they refer to generic and rather scientific purposes. So far, the...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... of Mississippi School of Law, and his courses at the University of North Dakota include space law, history of the space age, space politics & policy, space & the environment, and remote sensing law & regulation. He has been a contributor to several...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... and centripetal force at GEO lies at a distance of ~42,164 km from Earth’s centre, 35,786 km above the equator. The Space Elevator is also an extremely simple construct compared to a bridge, basically a flawless, extremely long rope more akin to the...
