June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... space’ came from an unexpected direction. Who indeed could have foreseen that the competition born of Cold War that carried the first men into Earth orbit would one day be replaced by international cooperation? This...
April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
... the first monopropellant, a fuel where the oxidizer is bound into the molecule itself. By the end of World War II, the United States knew that guided and ballistic missiles would be the weapons of the future and...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... in the event of any global downturn in the progress of civilisation on Earth, whether through political extremism, economic collapse, war, or environmental disaster. It would also act as proof of concept for the view that humanity has an open-ended...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... number of countries involved has expanded considerably. Countries now involved in space exploration include the historical, Cold War opponents, the United States and Russia; European countries, primarily through the European Space Agency (ESA...
October 2024
Cinema and extraterrestrial archaeology
... and their various consequences to discuss their pertinence to current knowledge in astrobiology. Even before the Second World War, science fiction literature was combining exoticism and the adventure of archaeological expeditions in search of lost...
September 2025
Why the global space sector needs urgent regulation
.... We are on the cusp of the second great Space Age - a space race led this time not by a Cold War military arms race but by a rapidly emerging global commercial space sector. This private sector space race...
