Issue #2(2) 2014 Lounge

The vanity of machines

I was here – Rosetta’s self-portrait as it passes Mars, one of four planetary gravity assists needed to boost the spacecraft onto the trajectory to meet its target, comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

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Ka-band satellite communication and lowering the price of VSATs

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Rotation in the Universe

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Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages

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Entrance to the General Assembly Building as viewed from the Visitors’ Plaza at UN Headquarters. Astronautics

A forum for humanity’s future

Europe’s Spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana. Although France has no space-specific tax regime, companies operating from French Guiana can benefit from enhanced research tax credits, illustrating how taxation is already influencing the commercial space sector. Astronautics

Who taxes space? - new challenges for the space economy