September 2023
To live is to create
... and the individual in particular. His socially significant projects include mass media and publishing. In Dr Ashurbeyli’s opinion it is possible to turn life itself into creativity, bringing together caring and gifted people, and generously sharing...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
It is imperative that people begin to understand the reasons why the American manned space programme died a slow death after the stunning success of Apollo in the early 1970s. Imperative because gaining such an understanding will finally illuminate ...
February 2018
Are we asking the right questions about space debris?
In the paper ‘Preliminary Analysis of Two Years of the Massive Collision Monitoring Activity’ presented at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, in September 2017, I reported on an ongoing space monitoring and ...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
If mining of the Moon and asteroids is a serious long-term proposition, and we are closer than ever before to the development of a space market economy, then the world’s legal community is surely obliged to revisit current space law conventions and ...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
October 1971 remains the only time that the United Kingdom has successfully launched a satellite into Earth orbit by means of a launch vehicle developed within the country. In doing so, it became the sixth nation to attain this capability. Unlike ...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
There are several moments, snapshots in time, that are iconic and indicative of the changes now underway in the space revolution. Some are frozen moments from our past, such as the most expensive ‘selfies’ ever shot of Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong...
