Super Global Projects and Environmentally Friendly Technologies Used in Space Exploration: Realities and Prospects of the Space Age
Super Global Projects and Environmentally Friendly Technologies Used in Space Exploration: Realities and Prospects of the Space Age
Author(s): Sergey KrichevskySubject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Human Ecology, Environmental interactions
Published by: Международное философско-космологическое общество
Keywords: space activity; Space Age; space exploration; environment; super global projects; sustainable “green” development; clean technology; environmentally friendly technologies and projects;
Summary/Abstract: The 60th anniversary of the Space Age is an important intermediate finishing point on the way of a man and the whole humanity to space. Along with the outstanding achievements, there are a number of challenges and contradictions in space exploration due to the aggravation of the global crisis on Earth, low efficiency and the backlog of space research in the transition to a new technology based reality and clean technologies. Both the international astronautics and the space exploration area nowadays face difficulties in choosing a new paradigm and a development strategy that is becoming even more complicated due to the current unstable and turbulent situation on Earth. The article reveals the optimistic scenario of further space exploration, as well as the methodological and practical aspects of new projects and technologies. The periodization of the Space Age history has been conducted. It has been also proposed a new classification of the “space” phenomenon due to concretizing the concept of “global” in the form of a three-scale structure encompassing the following levels: 1) planetary global; 2) super global; 3) universally global. The notion of “super global space exploration project” has been introduced.
Journal: Philosophy and Cosmology
- Issue Year: 20/2018
- Issue No: 20
- Page Range: 92-105
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English