October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... weak or inconsistent economic growth - and all the social issues it spawned - because of the limited focus of our technological innovation since 1970. Space development could have driven, and still can drive, significant economic expansion because...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
... the discovery of new land and resources, and technological innovation. Then came the Second World War with its ...associated post-war baby boom and the explosion of technological innovation. The effect was to render his solutions moot. However...
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
... System Division. He is currently responsible for complex software systems used to operate ESA space missions and is active in technology innovation in space and international standardisation together with other space agencies.
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... a case, regulation can take a back seat to promotion due to sheer ignorance. In the early days of many novel technologies innovation, risk and decision making went hand in hand. The Wright Brothers piloted their own invention and...
28 November 2016
UK capital investment company initiates pioneering space technologies fund
...help start-up companies develop space-based applications, services and technologies. Currently worth £50 million, but with a total ... 2000’s acted as a catalyst for waves of new technology innovations, the evidence is that low cost access to space will...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
... developments over the decades. Lunar Mission One has ambitions with its own technological innovations such as the advanced precision landing technology required, but it is the development of the project’s remote controlled ‘wireline’ drilling that...
