August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
..., operational and engineering sphere - has grown out of military considerations originally set in a two-sided cold war; today it is driven by both modern nationalistic defence and intelligence interests and, increasingly, commercial interests as well...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... ascent and co-orbital anti-satellite weapons. The JSpOC needs to use its resources to fight and win wars in space. I have heard time and time again from DoD leadership that they do not want to be the...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
.... Spaceplanes were not developed at the time because the ‘space race’ to the Moon, driven by the Cold War soaked up the available funding. The aircraft company design teams were allowed to disband and the lobby...
September 2017
Spaceflight studies support geriatric health on Earth
... and MENA at both policy and tactical levels to position Thuraya as their key satellite communication provider in times of war, conflict, disasters and in peace. Amal is part of the core team which established the UAE Space Agency...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
..., 2019 - that the original world of Blade Runner offered us. Compared to its earlier contemporaries Alien and Star Wars, it made more grounded futuristic projections, attempting to deal with the moral implications of cloning and the creation...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... space community for many years that the Apollo programme suffered from the wrong motivation (Cold War) and the wrong approach (flags and footprints), the true answer to what happened lies embedded in recent...
