August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
.... An examination of commercially available data shows that most of these constellations are operated by companies in the United States, but there are also constellation operators in Russia, China and Europe. Telecommunications is the biggest single...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... the rest. The size and complexity of the United States major space programmes - the International Space Station, ...activity in low Earth orbit. Starlab’s habitat module is an inflatable unit and the fully deployed habitat would expand to a huge 340 ...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... to launch a project called NEOCAM and the B612 Foundation (a private non-profit foundation with headquarters in the United States and dedicated to planetary defence against asteroids and other NEOs) is building its Sentinel spacecraft. Both of these...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
... beyond the Earth and opening the Solar System to human civilisation. For 30 years, my compatriots and I in the United States have been leading a space revolution, and at last, after decades of battling bureaucracies, changing laws, investing time...
September 2023
Space sustainability and the global commons
... space is actually implemented. Arguably, the first phase of this effort is embodied within the current discussion in the United States and Europe on space traffic management (STM), but we need to conceptualise it for the international level and then...
03 August 2015
From SpaceX to SolarCity: how space sector innovation affects sustainability on Earth
... progressive financing techniques, have made SolarCity a potential trigger for mass adoption of the solar panel in the United States. Considering the scientific community’s growing concerns about climate change and the need for clean energy...
