October 2024
Simplicity is the space industry’s secret weapon
... mistakes are not repeated. Design engineers have to overcome the extreme constraints placed on them by the space environment and wrestle with complex hardware development challenges In fact, SpaceX’s approach flips the traditional mindset: instead...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
...-based politics. Dolman draws inspiration from the works of classic seapower theorists, and applies them to the space environment. Known as ‘bluewater’ theories, they draw heavily on the history of island powers such as Britain, that engaged with...
29 September 2022
UK gives space junk clearance missions priority funding
... derelict satellites from LEO. The Clearing the LEO Environment with Active Removal (CLEAR) mission, which will ...satellites launched last year alone, the need to safeguard the space environment for the benefit of everyone on Earth has never been...
09 February 2021
Norfolk company targets suborbital market
... from Raptor Aerospace is on reforming the suborbital spaceflight market by providing short-duration access to space environments. This kind of space access has traditionally been used by scientific researchers in order to collect data and carry out...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
..., the main ethical issue here is that of sustainability and protection of the space environment. One of the main objections to the commercialisation of space exploration is the risk of repeating the overexploitation known from human history on Earth...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... of building interplanetary fuel depots and large, radiation-protected, artificial gravity orbital stations near colonised planets. Space settlements on the Moon, Mars, Ceres, Titan and other celestial bodies can be protected from hypogravity, as the...
