July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
... exactly how to do that in a lunar orbit context, and the Artemis Program isn’t the only player in the game. Other nations - China chief among them - are planning their own operations, and whatever legal and...
July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
... over the air-to-ground radio. He used a recording of Roger Doucet singing the national anthem before a Canadiens game at the Montreal Forum. This is thought to have been the first time any national anthem was played...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... Law PhD researcher working alongside Northumbria University and Northern Space & Security to create the ‘Space Law Games’. His research focuses particularly on matters of liability and risk management within outer space.
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... movie considers the ‘Monster in the Id’ and the capacity of alien civilisations, and perhaps humanity, to play a dangerous game through the naïve use of technology. I find this film fascinating primarily for its philosophical import: there has...
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... move from ambition to action on what was laid out in Agenda 2025 (the strategy I developed to raise Europe’s game in space when I became Director General of ESA) and therefore towards tangible, programmatic and systematic commitments to create...
May 2022
Using space data to improve life on Earth
... to scale it into the dozens. It is a perfect example of the way that our Space Services offering is changing the game in the space industry - empowering a whole new category of space companies that do not need to develop, own, or operate...
