March 2015
Satellite technology in newsgathering and disaster coverage
... street. You can’t throw more bandwidth at a satellite internet latency problem and solve it The first Gulf War exemplified what aggressive news organizations could do with satellite technology. Vietnam may have been the first...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
...of the kind enjoyed since the end of the Second World War. To those who have grown up post-WWII such secular ...technological innovation. Then came the Second World War with its associated post-war baby boom and the explosion of technological innovation...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... and incredibly expensive? During the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries when the Dutch Republic went to war against another European power, the VOC acted as an Asian surrogate against colonial rivals. In a theoretical conflict between...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
...regular stories on space security and the prospect of war in space which could affect operating satellites. For the... General is reported to have stated that after a war in space, “You go back to World War II... you go back to the Industrial Age”. Most...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... regarding territorial conquest removed one of the primary causes of war that has plagued us throughout human history. The global community... fraught with danger and increases the possibility that war will be exported from this planet into the cosmos...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... protection of their national security interests. This means any attempt to apply the jus in bello principles to a ‘space war’ is fraught with complexity, challenging the overly simplistic assumptions that are often made by commentators when seeking...
