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August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... reality of space travel could be overwhelming. Earth out the window is never removed from immediate consciousness. The responses from people who have flown in space, and who have seen the Earth from space, substantiate one... basic premise: the act of travelling in space can create profound ...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... Earth. As humanity begins to venture further afield and establish more permanent residence in space, responding to a pandemic in space, or a virus originating from space, are real and pressing issues that need to be addressed. As a fragile, organic... obligations and guidelines for states and space operators is essential for the long-term sustainability of space activities Immediately after the launch of Sputnik 1, over six decades ago, scientists...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... discipline that can act as a ‘bridge’ between Earth and space. Crossing different areas of knowledge and fields of applications, there are behaviours and technologies from space that can be translated to Earth (spin-offs) and vice ... first and foremost to deal with survival and difficult technical issues, the space industry is dominated by scientists, coming mainly from medicine, and engineers, who seem not to understand the importance of design...
August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
...their plans. It soon became obvious that, even though there is profit involved in space resource utilisation, the proceeds from space resource activities are not expected to be anywhere close to the perceived extraordinary volume, at...the realisation of the inevitability of private commercial activity, and the long-term benefits from space resource utilisation. However, essential questions remain and although the issue of non-appropriation of outer...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... in 1991, plus a 3D model of New Horizons by Dan Durda added in 2015. Note the atmospheric haze, the similarity to Sputnik Planum, and the chasms on Charon! (Gouache + digital) Gemini 6 and 7 docking in December 1965. There was nobody... before. And even more important, not many years passed before we began to get back actual images from space, taken by the probes and orbiters as they travelled between Earth and Moon, and even landed - or crashed...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
...an “ideological charter for the Space Age”, having come into force in 1967 amidst the tense atmosphere of the Cold War. According to lawyer and scholar, Carol R Buxton, the launch of Sputnik in 1957 sent “waves of... support this view, and argue for some form of common management by a governing body to redistribute income from space mining. Developed nations prefer to give the phrase a very narrow interpretation: as Buxton explains, their view ...
April 2021
Predicting dengue fever outbreaks from space
... regular revisit frequency of satellite data, D-MOSS has been specifically designed to be spatially-scaled from national to local level. This allows for a global implementation as well as implementations down to...resources to strengthen vector control and surveillance, and to implement community mobilisation campaigns. Applications of space technology are still in their infancy when it comes to dengue forecasting but Earth observation capabilities...
August 2016
Space for art
'EARTh from space’ is the theme of all of my artwork and lies at the heart of my own motivation to share the overwhelmingly impressive experience I was blessed to have while living, working and flying in space. The spaceflight ...incredibly special and ultimately important place I had the privilege of witnessing from that awesome and surreal vantage point of the International Space Station (ISS). Inspirational artwork used by NASA in a series of...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
...but can now be understood as a form of social observation. Importantly, this means that remote sensing from space can be a useful tool in managing humanitarian issues, such as mass migrations of refugee populations and to... protect these vulnerable individuals. From space, borders melt away and we are able to view a vulnerable population and reflect on how to ...
