October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...land’ on other worlds by applying ISRU approaches for sustainable exploration and colonisation. Just as 17th century explorers ...reliable and potent. Materials available The real key to self-sustaining or at least ISRU-driven lunar and Mars bases is ...
November 2016
Turning the Solar System into our backyard
... World Food Programme, Airbus Defence and Space, Local Motors and Made in Space to submit industrial and sustainability challenges that 50 top international and interdisciplinary aspiring entrepreneurs would tackle over the course of 24 hours during...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... (water, biological essential elements, energy and stability) to sustain life?’ Science objectives The Jupiter system is seen as a... in the Solar System with the necessary conditions to sustain life?’ The JUICE payload consists of 10 state-of-the...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
... and cost-effective solutions for addressing space debris and other complex threats to long-term space sustainability. Dangers and opportunities Today’s space environment features a large number of space actors pursuing a diverse range of activities...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... life support system be made completely independent of Earth? Can rocket engineers get transport costs down to economically sustainable levels at the same time as getting the reliability up to acceptable safety levels? But then I listened to his talk...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... work until 2015, relying on four expert groups set up to examine the various aspects of the long-term sustainability of space activities, and preparing a number of proposed guidelines. Following lengthy discussions at the 53rd session of COPUOS/STSC...
