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23 February 2018
UK to host world’s first commercial deep-space communications station
... viewers of events such as the Apollo 11 Moon landing, will help create the world’s first commercial deep-space communications station, capable of tracking future missions to the Moon and beyond. At present, if you are planning on...meet the high-end performance and technology requirements needed by ESA, NASA and private space exploration companies for deep-space communications. Goonhilly CEO Ian Jones said: “We already have a great deal of interest...
August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
... commercial interests of the rich and powerful prevail. As hot topics go, space resource utilisation has been on the boil within the international space community for a number of years. This activity goes by several names, each... of which is paired with a specific connotation. The most used is ‘space mining’ but it fails to reflect...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... outbreak has had significant medical, social and economic effects on the planet, but how has the space community fared? The full answer will not be known for many months, but in this article Seraphim’s... Centre (ESOC). Although ESA resumed operations on 2 April, it was clear that the space community was considering more of a move to remote operation of space missions (that is, remote from the ground station as well as from the spacecraft). In fact...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... fallout, are expected to linger for years to come. How can the space community learn from this and respond to a future pandemic in space? Upon returning to Earth on 17 April 2020, following her 200-day ...materials returned to Earth, would be of genuine concern and interest to the international community. Article IX further provides that the study and exploration of space and celestial bodies must be conducted in such a way “as to avoid their...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... variety of infrastructure interconnections has changed the status of space weather among the space community, while the magnitude of the associated terrestrial hazards has further broadened the remit of space weather risk analysis. The corresponding challenges and opportunities...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...be possible to interrogate the attitudes and interpretations most widely held across the space community. The first answer — yes, let’s remove space junk as soon as possible — is unsurprising. The threat posed by... could cause potentially mission-altering consequences. Given that a huge number of satellites, as well as the International Space Station (ISS), operate in LEO, it is hardly surprising that the proliferation of debris is of major concern...
January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
... the road and also how to drive international agreements to make access to space more sustainable. Binding rules will be critical for the future growth of the space community, otherwise it is all going to grind to a halt. American astrophysicist and... 1950s: you will get your news on pieces of paper, you will not be able to order your groceries online and your mobile phone won’t work everywhere. We won’t be able to do any of these things if we don...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... without the necessary Federal Communications Commission approval. It leads to the creation of at least five start-up ventures aiming to set up a space-based broadcast backbone for blockchains. It is a space race without a real end... philosopher, re-affirming its role as a multi-disciplinary think tank for the global space community. The Space Generation Advisory Council could initiate a project group dedicated to humanities in general, broadening...
March 2017
Space is open for business
...because the idea was to engage new stakeholders from institutional and private sectors with the non-space community. “We want to draw more people into the future, and explain how they can get...responsible for supporting ESA-wide strategic plans for space exploration and enlarging the stakeholder community engaged in the space exploration endeavour. He is involved in the definition of future space exploration missions and ESA roles, the development ...
