October 2020
Open Source Space
The spin-out of technologies from space into terrestrial applications over the past 50 years has made a direct impact on the lives of people on Earth. A key challenge for the coming decades is to continue to improve the affordability and ...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
The 2020s have already proved to be an unprecedented decade in many ways. The first 16 months brought a global pandemic, economic changes, progressive digitisation and, oddly enough, increased interest in the space sector. The western space sector ...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
The last Apollo mission to the Moon was almost 50 years ago and in that time no human has set foot on any celestial body outside of Earth. In those intervening decades, we have made advances in space science, engineering and commerce but, when it ...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
Why do we insure our homes and our cars? Mainly because we cannot afford to replace them in the event of disaster. The same is true for commercial satellites, other spacecraft and the rockets that launch them into space. In fact, space insurance is ...
April 2024
Unlocking the NewSpace economy through space-based solar power
Space-based solar power is attracting a significant amount of interest and excitement for the role it can play in the world’s transition to sustainable energy sources. The impact that this technology will have for the NewSpace economy cannot be ...
September 2025
AI cybersecurity - challenges in space
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the space frontier, powering autonomous satellites, deep space exploration and data analysis. However, this revolution brings a critical paradox, because the same AI systems also introduce ...
