February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
... confirmed in December 2015 and are now applied across our five fields of activity - launchers, science, observation, communications and defence. Our forward-looking strategy is based around this. We have a budget [2017] of €2.3 billion and out...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... spacecraft with its highly efficient thrusters can relocate a satellite to serve a new market. Envisage a communication satellite operator covering a mature telecommunications markets, and there is an emerging region that would be attractive...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
..., and we are closer than ever before to the development of a space market economy, then the world’s legal community is surely obliged to revisit current space law conventions and treaties to provide more detailed legislation. But in calling...
June 2018
Striding through space
..., and three mission specialists, Ronald McNair, Robert Stewart and McCandless. The first task of deploying two communications satellites was performed properly, although the boost motors to transfer them to their operational orbits both malfunctioned...
August 2018
Making a cosmic impression
... and working in space, to paint in space, and now to share my spaceflight experience through my artwork. I’m also thankful to be able to communicate a love of space and art and science through my regular column here in ROOM. I feel like I’m actually...
August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
... resources, if and when such activities become technologically feasible. This may seem like an invitation to the international community to react, but it can be argued that abandoning the Moon Agreement presumes that each country is looking at this...
