January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... a law defining ‘space resource’ to mean an ‘abiotic resource in situ in outer space’, which includes but is not limited to water and minerals. This definition is considered to include abiotic or non-biotic resources located on the Moon, planets and...
February 2018
Journey of inspiration
... clothes, macramed plant hangers, made pottery and hooked rugs; and Dad taught us how to boat and water ski, and he loved to build and fly small airplanes. We grew up at the local airport and I had my first...
April 2018
Future Cubesat swarms pose significant communications challenges
...requires efficient communication architectures in science missions such as gravity mapping, tracking forest fires, finding water resources or detecting vector diseases on Earth. There is an emerging trend towards using CubeSats to perform educational...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... range of space-based threats, and realise the potential of a wide range of space resources that include oceans of water and many other vital resources. Space shields, space colonies, space-based clean energy systems, macro...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
... against cot deaths. Similarly, microbiological sensors for space applications can be used to detect contamination for better water treatment, and NASA’s handling of hydrogen has paved the way for developing lightweight hydrogen tanks for...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
... that there is little evidence of exposed ice here that could be mined for conversion to rocket propellant or drinking water for space colonisation. Helium-3 - produced by the impact of solar wind on the lunar surface - is a potentially valuable...
