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June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
...greater success attracting angel capital and continuing on the capital lifecycle fly wheel. Space policy can also be helpful in terms of protecting intellectual and property rights. For example, Planetary Resources, a start-up ...based in Seattle which is focusing on asteroid mining was instrumental in helping to pass the US Space Act of 2015 which ...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
.... The ISS and the Space Shuttle have been crucial in providing a backdrop for successful discoveries in space and microgravity research connected to life sciences It was found...and space research - worlds that seldom interact but that could generate great value by working together. To realise this, a first objective is to make the microgravity environment a research tool for investigators, scientists and companies, particularly in life sciences...
October 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
...part of the global commons (which covers Earth’s unowned natural resources, such as the oceans, the atmosphere and space). Eighteen annexes to the Chicago Convention covering all aspects of aviation have been made by ICAO. As ...surveillance, since it will give full coverage of Earth’s surface including ocean and polar regions, and also near space for both air and space traffic management in one device, along with meeting the requirements of the ...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... exploitation of natural space resources, growing military and strategic uses of space, and the contamination of both Earth and space environments - remain without specific regulatory control and guidance. Space matters for everyone and it is our...Prof Dr Ram S. Jakhu is the Director of the Institute of Air and Space Law and the Centre for Research in Air and Space Law of McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He possesses professional experience of ...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
...from a monitor room. The EURO-CARES consortium is composed of planetary science researchers and curators, biosafety specialists, and engineers, from all parts of Europe (www.euro-cares.eu). There... different expertises and opinions should come together. References 1 1COSPAR (2002). COSPAR Planetary Protection Policy. 4 p. 2 Space Studies Board (2002). The quarantine and certification of Martian samples. Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration ...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
...combine planetary defence with designing and deploying space technology and systems that can also help reveal the mysteries of the universe and allow space science to be developed as well. What the Asgardia space nation ...as of 2077. The question to political and space agency leaders is: can we realise the extent and nature of cosmic dangers and pursue opportunities for creative systems for planetary space defence - now! Recently, through the ...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...in both size and cost, cubesats and nanosats could, in theory, fly more missions for the same budget. But could smaller spacecraft deliver in the space science arena? The ...planetary missions flown by NASA, ESA and other space agencies. About the author Anthony Freeman joined NASA’s JPL in 1987 and is now manager of JPL’s incubator of new ideas, the Innovation Foundry, working on many mission concepts across Earth Science, Planetary Science and...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
...blood wine. Creators of science fiction clearly have difficulty imagining a world without alcohol and science fiction novels have a multitude of treatments for space drinks, interplanetary beer and colourful saloons in space. Whether it is drinking...on Mars’, based at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. According to planetary scientist Dr Chris McKay, a team member of the initiative, “It is known that potatoes can grow...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
...Spheres, describes in detail the heliocentric theory of our planetary system. In the 16th and 17th centuries Johannes Hevelius (mathematician and astronomer) and Kazimierz Siemienowicz (engineer, rocket designer) contributed further to... microgravity. Three years later the Space Research Centre (CBK) was launched by the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). It was dedicated to exploring space and developing space technologies. In the 1970s the ...
