January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... resources and we must continue our exploration to understand which is the best and most cost-effective way to exploit them. This might be easily accomplished by robotic miners, which do not need expensive life support systems and...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
.... Future space exploration Congruent with international exploration roadmaps, EAC is evolving for the transition from ISS exploitation towards future deep space human exploration programmes and operational scenarios. For example, it is expanding its...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
... radiation) is an established technique at other wavelengths such as those of radio and optical astronomy, it has been little exploited in high-energy astrophysics to date. However, polarization analyses with e-ASTROGAM will reveal many details about...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
..., there are still gaps in our ability to adequately monitor climate change The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) had made all of its archived data freely available as of 1998, and gradually increased...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
...purely private interests - gave rise to unexpected opposition by ‘citizens of the world’. These very people prohibited the exploitation of the Moon by classifying it as a ‘world heritage’ site. The combined effect of the movement for the preservation...
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
... enthusiasm, who in turn enables him to achieve his vision. Once the goal is attained, economic and military exploitation can start. The story-tellers stands on the new shore, looks further to the horizon, and imagines...
