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India Rises to the Stars

Editor October 5, 2018 Chandrayaan-1 Homi Bhabha India ISRO Jawaharlal Nehru Narendra Modi the Indian Space Research Organization the Mangalyaan spacecraft the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Vikram Sarabhai

India is a unique player in the space industry. Historically its space program has had a developmental focus that distinguishes it from the more militarily-oriented American…

The African Space Race

Editor September 28, 2018 African space programs pan-Africanism RASCOM the African Union the Evian Agreement the Luigi Broglio Space Centre the Overberg Test Range the Regional African Satellite Communication Organization the San Marco platform the Square Kilometre Array

During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union dominated space research. Now, we have entered a space age dominated by commercial interests rather…

Creature Comforts in Space

Editor September 21, 2018 animal therapy astronauts dementia human-animal bonds personal robots Robotics Robots stress the Artificial Intelligence Lab the Space Symposium

PARO is a robotic baby seal that helps dementia patients and may someday provide companionship to astronauts. The therapeutic tool’s creator Takanori Shibata thinks…

Arts

The work of space artists: visualizing the cosmos

Editor September 14, 2018 alien landscapes Chesley Bonestell exoplanets Mars NASA Robert Heinlein space art the Cassini spacecraft the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter the Sun

Art that depicts space drives us to explore it. Well before astronauts left Earth, the work of the “father of modern space art” Chesley Bonestell…

Trillions of Dollars Above our Heads: Asteroid Mining

Editor September 7, 2018 Arkyd-6 asteroid mining asteroids business models cubesats property rights space resources space tycoons the Asteroid Mining Corporation

There are plenty of ore-bearing asteroids above our heads. Accessing their resources presents a huge incentive for future space exploration. There is already a race among entrepreneurs to be…

Life

Is Life on Other Planets?

Editor August 31, 2018 astrobiology Enrico Fermi extraterrestrial life NASA SETI the cosmic zoo the Drake Equation the Fermi Paradox the search for extraterrestrial intelligence the SETI Institute

“Where is everybody?” That is the question Enrico Fermi reportedly asked, summarizing the quandary: if the universe is so big, why haven’t we seen any aliens?…

Arts

Independent Games Spur Interest in Space

Editor August 24, 2018 game developers game development independent games open-ended games popular culture science fiction seedship space colonization space exploration video games

Popular culture is an important driver of public interest in space. Most people have watched Star Wars or Star Trek, and these artifacts inform…

Cubesats Make Space Accessible

Editor August 16, 2018 Aurora College cubesats NanoRacks Rocket Lab satellites Stanford University STEM education STEM projects the Canadian Space Agency the International Space Station Yukon College

Space exploration used to be an expensive endeavor, but this is no longer the case. Anyone with $40K can now send a satellite into orbit. Universities,…