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July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... interfaces and tools for astronauts, we can achieve better goals that directly affect the success of a space mission When I started in space design over 20 years ago, I was practically alone and I wondered if an architect, a designer... interfaces and tools for astronauts, we can achieve better goals that directly affect the success of a space mission. Galina Balashova (left) presenting her designs in Moscow Russia in 2017. We have to consider also...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
... Currently the main, most realistic and upcoming type of space missions are science missions. In a sense, scientific missions can be seen as a type of space activity to which we are inclined to assign a higher...humans to the Moon and especially to Mars, should prompt space mission philosophers to take a greater interest in the bioethics of space missions. Human presence in space, especially on a mission to Mars, will not only involve a number of ...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...space heritage discussion is the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Launched in 1988 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, it is clear that the venerable space telescope has a limited future lifespan. Of the six gyroscopes replaced during the STS-125 servicing mission...and lock onto new targets. Thomas Brown of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland and Hubble mission head, recently said that Hubble’s orbit is stable until the 2030s. The big ...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...the same sort of comments when photography was invented, when digital art became available, when the Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first amazing images of distant stars and nebulae. . . But let’s... on a series of articles for Collier’s magazine, showing how humans could explore space, from a wheel-shaped station in orbit to a fleet of moonships, and later a mission to Mars. There can be no doubt that they succeeded spectacularly in showing a...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... would wish to preserve as important parts of our space heritage in some kind of space museum? Save our satellites Scientific satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have contributed enormously to our understanding ... special missions? And indeed, which are the special missions that we might want to curate? The answer to the latter question is perhaps an easier one to address. Scientific satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope ...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
...the beginning of the twenty-first century. Surrounded by stars - this starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520...but I prefer the one that emphasises the responsibility of humanity that explores and will someday exploit space. To declare space and celestial bodies as the common heritage of humankind is to recognise and accept the burden of ...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
...interlinked. “Politics has always been at the heart of humankind’s exploration and utilisation of space, and the space programmes themselves have never been able to transcend terrestrial international politics”. US astronaut, Kevin Ford...in part originally designed and funded to meet the Pentagon’s and the Intelligence Community’s needs. The Hubble Space Telescope is an adapted KH-11 spy satellite that simply looks to the cosmos rather than down on...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
...developing policy and legal frameworks for situations where AI components and autonomy are to be incorporated into future space missions. It is important to promote responsible innovation and use of such technologies, which calls for the ... Artist’s view of three Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), the ISS and Hubble Space Telescope orbiting Earth. States, agencies, organisations and/or private companies will have the responsibility...
March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
... our spacecraft. Emotional ending Rosetta is the last of the pioneering space missions and its end marks the end of the pioneering phase of space exploration Rosetta was programmed to transmit data in real time, and ... something more than that. Rosetta was the last of the pioneering space missions and its conclusion marked the end of the pioneering phase of space exploration. The new generations of spacecraft, of scientific instruments, of ...
