Emma Gatti

On the 26th of January 2024, 118 marine conservation and environmental organizations signed a petition asking Iridium to stop producing their Short Burst Data (SBD) modules, real-time GPS tracking devices, because such service is used in dFADs, short for drifting fish aggregating devices, fishing tools scientifically proven to be environmentally harmful. Iridium’s answer acknowledged the potential issue, but declined the criticism. Whether the responsibility lies in the hands of the satellite tracking service providers, or with wholesale satellite network operators such as Iridium, it’s the first crack in a canvas painted by a domain that refuses to accept and take action upon a bitter reality: Space-based technology is dual-use in every sense, and the extreme efficiency and power of our services can, is and will be used for crimes against the environment, if not thoroughly regulated.

There’s been no shortage of recent attempts at clarifying what the problems are with the definitions of success or failure for a Moon mission. Bearing in mind the pressure applied on CEOs, leadership, and crews of many a lunar-aiming venture business, and equally knowing perfectly well how challenging is to land on the Moon, it is nevertheless important for the insiders of the sector to develop considerations worthy of lunar stakeholders as they sort out their concerns.

It has now been a week since SpaceX's IFT 3 took off and kept us in suspense. All space enthusiasts around the globe are eagerly waiting for the promised new era in which access to space becomes the new normal, in which prices will fall to a fraction of their current level and new business models will emerge.

INTEGRASYS Group recently won a prestigious award for their enterprise management and control software.

It's not "all work and no play" at the Vatican! Representatives of various Vatican entities have been forming teams and playing against each other since 1947.

Archbishop Carlo Mario Viganò, former nuncio in Washington, is currently being tried by the dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on charges of "schism."

Six months into 2024, with nearly $4b in space-tech investments made so far, fascinating trends lead the way in space-tech investments.

The Team of the School of Disruption, together with the students and teachers of the Space Architecture Workshop. Credit: School of Disruption/Gianfranco Roberto Photography

On various occasions, Pope Francis has expressed with concrete gestures his sorrow for children who die before birth, and his compassion towards their parents.

Projects include restoration of many monuments and facades and construction of an important underpass, but the process is torturous for residents and tourists.