Issue #5 - 2012 (special issue, Guest Editors: Guido de Croon and Dario Izzo)

The fifth Issue of Acta Futura "the Pink issue" contains improved versions of the papers presented at the 3rd Space and AI workshop organized by the Advanced Concepts Team within the International Joint Conference on Atificial Intelligence, held in Barcelona in July 2011.

Issue #4 - 2011

The fourth Issue of Acta Futura "the Ivory issue" contains original peer-reviewed contributions and discussions on future visions for space. All authors have been invited to write their contribution on a topic selected by the journal editorial board.

Issue #3 - 2009

The third Issue of Acta Futura contains papers from the invited speakers to the second workshop on innovative concepts. This second edition of the workshop focussed on innovative concepts conceived by the space community. The contents of the workshop were organised around four meta-themes: i) Creating tomorrow's Pioneers, ii) Vis viva from space, iii) Driving evolution and iv) Discovering Natural Paths. These themes form the backbone of the ACT's research interests.

Issue #2 - 2006 (special issue, Guest Editor: Dario Izzo)

The second Issue of Acta Futura contains papers from the invited speakers to the 1st workshop on innovative concepts. This first edition of the workshop focussed on innovative concepts conceived by the space community. The papers have also been published as an European Space Agency special publication SP-633.

Issue #1 - 2005

This early first Issue of Acta Futura contains selected papers from the Advanced Concepts Team researchers covering the research areas of the team as of the year 2005. From hypomethabolic states for astronaut space travel to prospects of solar power from space and Near Earth Objects mitigation problems this issue contains the first papers of many now classical ACT research topics.