September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
.... Collected data is transferred to ground stations where all the transmissions received from thousands of devices in the field are decoded by patented receiver software hosted in the cloud, providing scalable low-cost connectivity for a range...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
..., with a nod at reality through inclusion of technical chapters or appendices. Nice examples of this approach are Adventure Above the Clouds (Blacke, 1933) by Frank Monk and Henry Winter, and Zero to Eighty: Being My Lifetime Doings, Reflections, and...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
.... It didn’t matter how rich or powerful you were, how much you might have wanted to rise above the clouds and look back at our home planet, it wasn’t possible technologically to do so (though, of course, we had hints of it through hot...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
.... Thanks to them and all those who followed them, we became, effectively or vicariously, riders of the clouds and children of the stars. And we even walked on the Moon: “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind...
