From the editor

FROM THE EDITOR There’s a song that epitomises my thoughts about life in the city. It goes “New York, I love you. But you’re bringing me down”. I imagine this sums up the love affair many of us have with the cities we live in, even if it’s not the Big Apple. Life in the […]

Cold call

LONGYEARBYEN, SVALBARD On the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard lies this array of telecoms domes, which are in constant communication with polar-orbiting satellites. The Svalbard Satellite Station (SvalSat) sits on a mountaintop near Longyearbyen, one of the most northern permanent settlements in the world. Built as a joint venture between NASA and the Norwegian Space Centre, […]