The New Space Age in the making: Emergence of exo-mining, exo-burials and exo-marketing

Čápová, Klara Anna

doi:10.1017/s1473550416000185

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“…In this context, it would maybe help studying the history of human colonialism and what we can learn from it. The economic advantage to be the first to act in space, does summon the dangers of imperialism regarding the ownership of resources (Capova 2016). ‘Examining the history of spaceflight advocacy reveals an ideology of spaceflight that draws deeply on a durable American narrative – a national mythology – of frontier pioneering, continual progress, manifest destiny, free enterprise, ragged individualism, and a right to life without limits‘(Billings 2007: 483).…”

Section: The Importance Of Planetary and Environmental Protection – Dmentioning

confidence: 99%

The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability

Losch

2018

International Journal of Astrobiology

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The concept of sustainability is widely acknowledged as a political guideline. Economic, ecological, social and cultural aspects of sustainability are already under discussion. Current space mining efforts demand that the discussion become a broader one about 'planetary sustainability', including the space surrounding Earth. To date, planetary sustainability has mainly been used with reference to Earth only and I will extend it here, elaborating on a similar NASA initiative. This article (1) sketches the contemporary economic-political initiatives which call for a special reflection of Earth's location in space, and then (2) discusses the meaning of the concept of sustainability in this context. Next, (3) I relate the discussion to the issue of planetary and environmental protection, before, (4) finally, presenting a philosophical and theological perspective that seems particularly able to broach the issue of the multiple dimensions of sustainability in this context. This is the concept of constructive-critical realism. My overview of the topic concludes with (5) a summarizing outlook.

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Section: The Importance Of Planetary and Environmental Protection – Dmentioning

confidence: 99%

The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability

Losch

2018

International Journal of Astrobiology

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“…Herod, 1997). As such, space exploration can be variously understood as: a catalyst to drive consumer, manufacturing and managerial innovation (Johnson, 2016), a place to extract resources (Capova, 2016), and a way to train globally competitive knowledge workers while creating new ‘off world’ consumers, such as space tourists (Beery, 2012). We might celebrate this vision like Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder, CEO and space booster, as a ‘huge dynamic entrepreneurial explosion in space’ (quoted in Davenport, 2016) or lament it as a pernicious ‘up scaling’ of the over-accumulation crises, and social inequalities, of terrestrial capitalism (Dickens and Ormrod, 2007; MacDonald, 2007).…”

Section: Labour Geographies Of the Space Age: Astro-capitalist Organizing And Its Alternativesmentioning

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Geographies of outer space: Progress and new opportunities

Dunnett¹,

Maclaren

Klinger

et al. 2017

Progress in Human Geography

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Research into outer space has burgeoned in recent years, through the work of scholars in the social sciences, arts and humanities. Geographers have made a series of useful contributions to this emergent work, but scholarship remains fairly limited in comparison to other disciplinary fields. This forum explains the scholarly roots of these new geographies of outer space, considering why and how geographies of outer space could make further important contributions. The forum invites reflections from political, environmental, historical and cultural geographers to show how human geography can present future avenues to continued scholarship into outer space.

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“…As the nature of space projects changes, system engineering and management processes must be adapted to new environments and frameworks [10,11]. Those new projects [12,13] are more subject to the issues derived from the sequential design scheme, as project budget constitute a limitation in the development time and its associated cost. This has been evident in the evolution of space engineering projects, where transitions from sequential to concurrent design or from hierarchical to parallel processes have been observed in the last decades [14].…”

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Agile methodologies applied to Integrated Concurrent Engineering for spacecraft design

Álvarez

Roibás-Millán

2021

Res Eng Design

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In recent years, space projects have evolved to faster and more variable projects. To adjust the design processes in accordance, new work methodologies arise, as the Concurrent Engineering (CE). This working discipline is characterized by collaborative design and the flux of information being improved by working in a dedicated environment. CE has been recently adopted by space industry for the preliminary design phase of spacecrafts and other space systems. However, this methodology does not envisage tasks prioritization, which is a fundamental aspect to achieve an optimal design solution with an efficient allocation of resources. In this work a variation of CE discipline by applying Agile methodologies (in which the aspect of task prioritization is essential), is proposed. Agile methodologies allow the proper distribution of the design effort depending on the project priorities, the state of the design and the requirements, in a continuous process to improve the design solution. The general aspects of the proposed method are presented and applied to the design of a space mission, the results being analysed and compared with to the classical CE process in order to outline its differences and similarities with CE and Agile methodologies and show its potential for a new environment for space project design.

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The New Space Age in the making: Emergence of exo-mining, exo-burials and exo-marketing

Cited by 12 publications

References 15 publications

The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability

The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability

Geographies of outer space: Progress and new opportunities

Agile methodologies applied to Integrated Concurrent Engineering for spacecraft design

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