16 April 2024
The End Of Astronauts Why Robots are the Future of Exploration
You know from the start that this is one of those ‘does what it says on the tin’ books. The title suggests astronauts are surplus to requirements; the subtitle substitutes robotic explorers; and most spacers know the UK Astronomer Royal’s views on ...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... well to consider Ray Kurzweil and his prediction about the coming ‘Singularity’ or those of Peter Diamandis in forecasting a future that is increasingly based on an extra-terrestrial and space-based economy. The value of platinum-rich asteroids have...
May 2019
A matter of perspective
... have no overview, no meta-perspective. In 2011 when I first began my ‘outer space’ series, I realised that in the near future we would be seeing the start of a period of enormous advances in the space industry. And in the meantime, the privatisation...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... an infrastructure which will be continuously developed. At the same time the inspiration of exploration is of utmost importance to secure the future through motivated people.” Asked whether the space industry has become too risk averse when defining...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... years) rodent analogue reproduction experiments aboard the ISS are currently ongoing, as well as planned for the future. Research has also been conducted on the ground in simulated microgravity laboratory settings where rotational devices lessen...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
...properties of the terrain [4]. Current rover designs are not suited for accomplishing many of the goals envisaged in future exploration missions [5]. Aspects such as the uneven distribution of torques between the wheels, the maximum operational speed...
