Space Perspectives: the interviews of RM64
For issue 64 of Renewable Matter, we invited three leading figures in space research to join us at the Think Tank round table: an astronaut, an astrobiologist and an astrophysicist. We explored econ...
The World as Seen from the Moon
On 6 April 2026, as the Orion space capsule travelled behind the far side of the Moon, four people broke a record that had stood for fifty-six years: they travelled as far as 406,771 kilometres from...
A Sustainable Intergalactic Civilisation
Throughout the history of human civilisation, discovery through exploration has been a fundamental element of its cultural, economic, technical and spiritual evolution. From the brave Polynesian exp...
Getting To the Moon is Not Enough: We Have To Stay There
Giuseppe Sala teaches at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology at the Politecnico di Milano and chairs the Technical-Scientific Committee of BEX – Beyond Exploration, the spa...
What if perfect circularity came from space
In orbit, nothing is wasted. Every gram of material loaded before launch has a weight, a cost and an already planned second life. On the International Space Station, most of the water – includ...
China, a five-year plan for space
In a video released in November by the CGTN network, five taikonauts (from taikong: space in Chinese) are seen roasting chicken wings on board a space station. “This is the first time in ...
Space Economy, Italy Launches “BEX – Beyond Exploration” in 2026
The rapid evolution of the global space economy, valued at over 570 billion dollars in 2023 according to OECD estimates, is pushing countries to strengthen industrial capabilities and research netwo...
From Space to Earth: The Future of Medicine
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Scott and Mark Kelly are monozygotic twins, identical in their DNA, and with a remarkably similar ...
Satellites Watch Over Us from Above
On November 3, 2023, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Karnali province in western Nepal. Immediately after receiving the news, the Nepalese Ministry of Home Affairs asked Sentinel Asia to send...