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Editorial Team

Space Mart Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Space Mart Editorial Team produces Space Mart's coverage of the space economy. We report on satellites and constellations, the launch market, space telecom, industry deals, and the technology and ground systems behind the business of space. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Space Mart takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Tech Space

When NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down in Jezero Crater in February 2021, it carried 10,932,295 names from members of the public, stencilled by electron beam onto three fingernail-sized silicon chips in features thinner than a human hair

Bolted to the aft crossbeam of NASA's Perseverance rover are three fingernail-sized silicon chips carrying 10,932,295 names, etched by an electron beam in features finer than a human hair — a phone book of Earthlings, now sitting in Jezero Crater.

Sep 21, 2026
Fire Storm

How did a Southeast Asian archipelago, after choking its neighbours in haze for weeks during severe dry seasons, begin plugging a 4,000-kilometre drainage network cut through peat swamps decades earlier by a failed rice scheme?

After the 2015 haze crisis, Indonesia began plugging thousands of drainage canals cut through Borneo's peat swamps for Suharto's failed Mega Rice Project — a decade-long, hand-built effort to raise water tables and stop the smouldering fires that choke Southeast Asia each dry season.

Sep 10, 2026
Tech Space

The Roman Space Telescope is designed to pair a wide field of view with infrared vision sharp enough that its surveys can pick up outer solar system objects, exploding stars and growing black holes while mapping galaxies by the billions

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched Aug. 30, 2026, carrying a 300-megapixel infrared camera with a field of view 100 times wider than Hubble's — wide enough to survey outer solar system objects, supernovae, feeding black holes and billions of galaxies in the same frame.

Sep 10, 2026
Farm News

What happened when American plains farmers, after a decade of black blizzards burying houses to the eaves in the 1930s, were paid by a new federal agency to plough along the contours and plant windbreak trees?

In April 1935, Congress created the Soil Conservation Service and began paying Great Plains farmers to plough along contours and plant windbreaks. Within seven years, roughly 220 million trees stood in a 1,150-mile shelterbelt from North Dakota to Texas — and the black blizzards began to fade.

Sep 7, 2026
Government

Earlier this year France recruited 41 US-based researchers through its Choose France for Science programme, and in August Canada announced 48 more crossing north, as national talent schemes quietly pick off scientists unsettled by US funding cuts

France recruited 41 US-based researchers through its Choose France for Science programme this year, and Canada added 48 more in August, as national talent schemes quietly draw scientists away from an American research system rattled by funding cuts and visa volatility.

Sep 7, 2026
Edible

We tend to think honey spoils like any other food, but sealed jars recovered from Egyptian tombs over 3,000 years old have been reported still edible, preserved by a combination of low water content, natural hydrogen peroxide, and a pH acidic enough to stop bacteria from growing at all

Sealed honey pots recovered from Egyptian tombs have been reported edible after 3,000 years — and the chemistry that makes it possible, from bee-added enzymes to water activity below 0.6, still shapes how modern food scientists and mānuka producers think about preservation.

Sep 1, 2026
Physics News

In 1665, Robert Hooke sliced a paper-thin sliver of cork, held it under a compound microscope of his own design, and saw rows of tiny empty compartments that reminded him of monks’ quarters, giving biology the word ‘cell’ 174 years before anyone worked out what was actually inside one

How a Royal Society polymath, a leather-tubed microscope, and a sliver of dead bark gave biology its most fundamental word — and why it took 174 years to figure out what was actually inside a living one.

Aug 27, 2026
Tech Space

Why does removing rats and stoats from a scatter of small offshore islands bring back flightless parrots and ground-nesting seabirds that had not bred on the mainland for over a century?

New Zealand's kākāpō population has climbed from 50 birds in the 1990s to over 200 today, entirely because rats, stoats and cats have been eradicated from three small offshore islands — Whenua Hou, Anchor and Chalky. Here's how removing one pressure lets an 80-million-year-old ecosystem reassemble itself.

Aug 26, 2026
Wood Pile

How did a treeless volcanic island in the North Atlantic, stripped of its birch forests by Viking axes over a thousand years ago, begin clawing woodland back onto slopes of black ash and wind?

Iceland lost more than 95% of its birch forests after Norse settlement in 874 CE, and now plants three to four million trees a year to claw woodland back onto slopes of volcanic ash. Here's how the soil chemistry, the sheep economy, and a century of forestry are rebuilding the least-forested country in Europe.

Aug 21, 2026
Water World

How does reintroducing a dam-building rodent to a drought-prone valley raise the water table, cool the stream, and store more carbon in the floodplain than the surrounding forest?

A single family of beavers on Devon's River Otter built an 80-metre dam holding a million litres, raised the water table by more than a metre, and turned a straightened ditch into a braided wetland storing more carbon than the surrounding forest — the mechanics of how one rodent rehydrates a valley.

Aug 18, 2026
Tech Space

How did a London physician stop a cholera outbreak that killed more than 500 people in ten days by mapping deaths on a Soho street grid and removing the handle from a single water pump in 1854?

In September 1854, London physician John Snow ended a cholera outbreak that killed 616 people in ten days by mapping every death on a Soho street grid, tracing the cluster to a single contaminated water pump on Broad Street, and having its handle removed — founding modern epidemiology in the process.

Aug 10, 2026