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Technology Quarterly

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A sudden light

A sudden light
Aug 25th, 2016

Remaking the sky
A sudden light

New capabilities, new entrepreneurialism and rekindled dreams are making space exciting again, says Oliver Morton

Satellites
The small and the many

Flocks of cheap little satellites could transform the space business

Earth observation
Anywhere and everywhere

Earth-observation satellites are changing the world—yet again

Launchers
Getting a lift

Being cheap is not the be-all and end-all of a launcher

The role of robots
Construction and destruction

It’s not what you launch, it’s what you do with it

Human space flight
The orphans of Apollo

There is no compelling need for people in space, but they will keep going anyway

Brain scan
Space chips

Zac Manchester is making smallsats smaller still

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