20 May 2022
Science Fiction
... everything from “Robots, AI and Transhumanism” to “Environment, climate change and the Anthropocene” along with futurology,..., meaning that ‘Shuttle Enterprise’ got nowhere near the space environment. Overall, there’s very little not to like about ...
December 2014
From the green economy to green space
... attention or allocate sufficient resources to providing ecological security and protecting the environment. Instead, space is stuck on the important issue of space debris in near-Earth space. But even this problem will not being solved, until the...
December 2014
Before Rosetta: Svetlana Gerasimenko’s story
... long time. When I heard that a man had just flown to space, I went running and screaming back into the class and announced the news...with comets. In those days, the universal interest in space meant that astronomy was not an unusual profession and ...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
...will be made available for authorised experimenters to demonstrate new, innovative mission operation concepts in a representative space environment. To allow as many experiments as possible, OPS-SAT is fully reconfigurable in every possible way, from...
June 2015
Re-usable rockets: a new breakthrough for suborbital research
...benefits of balloon flights will foster many new REM applications in space, and we are proud to already be involved in demonstrating...imaging of the upper atmosphere to study its meteoroid environment, and an education payload centred on detecting the ...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
Building a space colony that will protect and sustain a population of hundreds or even thousands of colonists in an environment that is hostile to human life presents huge technological and economic challenges. One of the greatest challenges for ...
