February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... the Earth; surely that spacecraft would merit curation? But how to preserve them? Currently there is no realistic prospect of returning the HST or any other important space hardware to the Earth for display, so curation in orbit appears...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... status, and future of human space flight, who escaped Nazi Germany in 1935. His first book on the prospects of spaceflight appeared in 1926 under the title, Die Fahrt ins Weltall [The Journey into Space] (Hachmeister...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... reveal their intentions to competitors but also because the details may be decided ‘on the fly’, depending on the prospects for commercial success. Among the dozen or so projects for Internet-related satellite constellations, we find those of Boeing...
June 2020
Building a digital democracy in a planetary pandemic
... pretend: history tells us that if national pride between Earth countries drives space habitation, there is little or no prospect of democracy in space - or of peace in orbit, either. As far as creating a space nation for all humankind is concerned...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... surface and could support life as we know it. The possibility of observing such a world from close quarters is an exciting prospect. About the author Simon ‘Pete’ Worden is the Chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation and Executive Director...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... to realise this potential. With greater payload sizes, reduced launch costs and increasing launch frequency, the prospect of an Amazon web services beaming directly from space is not so unlikely. Moon village From a human perspective, government...
