The benefits brought by space—General public versus space agencies perspectives

Detsis, Bianca; Detsis, Emmanouil

doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2013.03.021

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“…This again highlights the need for the space community to educate and excite young people to build the long-term constituencies necessary to promote and carry out future space exploration [40,66,67]. A further breakdown by generation shows that this effort may actually be working.…”

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confidence: 83%

“…Much of the recent literature on public opinion on space policy is, in reality, research on specific segments of the publicdsuch as parts of the attentive public [31] or studentsdrecruited by opportunistic means. Several examples include: Cook, Druger, and Snyder [39], who studied Syracuse undergraduate; Detsis and Detsis [40], who studied social network users 25e44 years of age; Entradas and Miller [41], who analyzed "public support" by those attending science outreach events (also see Ref. [42]); Jones, Yeoman, and Cockell [43], who analyzed school children; Joyce, Ferguson, and Weinstein [44], who studied teenagers and members of space advocacy groups; and Raitt et al [34], who studied worldwide "space expectations" in many countries but relied on an opportunistic rather than probability sample.…”

Section: Space Policy Opinionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Separation of church and space: Religious influences on public support for U.S. space exploration policy

Ambrosius

2015

Space Policy

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Section: Discussion and Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 83%

Section: Space Policy Opinionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Separation of church and space: Religious influences on public support for U.S. space exploration policy

Ambrosius

2015

Space Policy

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“…The water recycling system innovations required to support ISS activities have been listed among the major benefits for humanity (Detsis and Detsis, 2013;NASA et al, 2019). The ISS is provided with potable water from different suppliers, coordinated by the space agencies of United States (National Aeronautics and Space Administration -NASA), Russia (Russian Federal Space Agency -Roscosmos), Europe (European Space Agency -ESA), and Japan (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency -JAXA) (Bruce et al, 2005;.…”

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Water and Microbial Monitoring Technologies towards the Near Future Space Exploration

Amalfitano¹,

Levantesi²,

Copetti³

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Space exploration is demanding longer lasting human missions and water resupply from Earth will become increasingly unrealistic. In a near future, the spacecraft water monitoring systems will require technological advances to promptly identify and counteract contingent events of waterborne microbial contamination, posing health risks to astronauts with lowered immune responsiveness. The search for bio-analytical approaches, alternative to those applied on Earth by cultivation-dependent methods, is pushed by the compelling need to limit waste disposal and avoid microbial regrowth from analytical carryovers. Prospective technologies will be selected only if first validated in a flight-like environment, by following basic principles, advantages, and limitations beyond their current applications on Earth. Starting from the water monitoring activities applied on the International Space Station, we provide a critical overview of the nucleic acid amplification-based approaches (i.e., loop-mediated isothermal amplification, quantitative PCR, and high-throughput sequencing) and early-warning methods for total microbial load assessments (i.e., ATP-metry, flow cytometry), already used at a high readiness level aboard crewed space vehicles. Our findings suggest that the forthcoming space applications of mature technologies will be necessarily bounded by a compromise between analytical performances (e.g., speed to results, identification depth, reproducibility, multiparametricity) and detrimental technical requirements (e.g., reagent usage, waste production, operator skills, crew time). As space exploration progresses toward extended missions to Moon and Mars, miniaturized systems that also minimize crew involvement in their end-to-end operation are likely applicable on the long-term and suitable for the in-flight water and microbiological research.

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“…Following the launch of the first Earth-orbiting satellites in the late 1950s, the potential for space technology along with its satellite technology applications to make essential contributions to economic and social development were quickly recognised by the international community. Space activities expanded quickly in the following decades and demonstrated their usefulness in everyday life (Detsis and Detsis 2013;Williamson et al 2001; UNOOSA-a 2015; UNOOSA-b 2015; Waswa and Juma 2012). Dupas (2010Dupas ( , 2005 explains that space development occurred in three waves.…”

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Evaluation of ‘learning’ as a main thrust in transferor–transferee relationships: Small satellite technology transfer collaborative projects between developed and developing countries – The case of Algeria

Ayad

Darby

Matthews

2021

International Journal of Technology Management &Amp; Sustainable Development

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This article focuses on the transferor‐transferee relationship in the context of technology transfer collaborative projects between developed and developing countries. The case of the Algerian satellite industry, which utilized three small satellite collaborative projects with foreign companies over twenty years in order to acquire technology from abroad, has been used as an empirical study. The study evaluates transferor‐transferee relationships when small satellite collaborative projects are used as a technology transfer mechanism. It assesses whether technology transfer effectiveness or ‘learning’ is mutually understood by the two key transferor and transferee actors. It identifies a potential schism when transferor motives are often economic (business-oriented) whilst transferee motives are non-economic, aiming to learn and develop local capabilities for national developmental objectives. The study reveals that this initial non-alignment of objectives led to the adoption of a transfer mechanism where learning is not the main thrust. The principal finding extrapolated from this research is that this inadequacy is rooted in the fact that Algerians had not clearly dissociated the objective of ‘satellite technological learning’ from that of ‘satellite applications’. Recommendations for future research include the need to clearly prioritize the objective of ‘technological learning’ to avoid confusion as to the transfer mechanisms to adopt.

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The benefits brought by space—General public versus space agencies perspectives

Cited by 13 publications

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Separation of church and space: Religious influences on public support for U.S. space exploration policy

Separation of church and space: Religious influences on public support for U.S. space exploration policy

Water and Microbial Monitoring Technologies towards the Near Future Space Exploration

Evaluation of ‘learning’ as a main thrust in transferor–transferee relationships: Small satellite technology transfer collaborative projects between developed and developing countries – The case of Algeria

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