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February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... it. This danger is as real as a speck of paint almost taking out the window of the space shuttle! The risks of debris, large and small, and the possible responses are complex [19] and beyond this article. In summary, the risk of debris and other moving bodies will require an active avoidance...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
... asteroids and comets. The MASTER II network is internationally recognised and its telescopes have been invited to the best observatories north and south of the equator, and the objects discovered by the network have become research subjects for the largest telescopes in the world’s space observatories. The fact that the...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... development decisions have been based upon this type of assessment and the US Space Shuttle, for example, was ‘sold’ on the assumption of 25-30 flights per year over 12 years [1]. However, the implicit assumption here is that each flight supports at least one...
August 2020
Opportunities for young people in the space sector
... a space mission in 10 days under the supervision of experts, and the Space Astronomy Summer programme in Maryland, USA, where students can work with Space Telescope Science Institute researchers on data interpretation, software development and scientific writing. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS...
May 2022
Redefining the space professional – disruptions in the space sector workforce
... of required ‘upskilling’ and ‘reskilling’ to build a space ecosystem. Looking at the requirements for future public space organisations, coupled with the requirements of private space, one sees the heavy influence of Industry 4.0 skillsets and technologies, underpinning the new automation/diversity of technology revolution in the space sector. These...
September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
... the author Mark Williamson is an independent Space Technology Consultant and writer, and a Commissioning Editor for ROOM Space Journal. He has 40 years of experience as a satellite communications engineer and consultant to the space industry, space insurance and space education sectors. He is the author of six books, including The Cambridge Dictionary of Space Technology and Space: The...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... the satellite itself and the launch services. Finally, as a direct result of the cost aspects and the fact that there are relatively few launches to insure, space insurance attracts the interest of the top ‘C-suite’ executives – in both industrial and insurance sectors. The scale of the premiums involved, and...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... and dreams and accomplishments Cold War tension between the United States and the USSR led to the space race. Space was the new field of competition in a battle of ideologies. The initial venue for this competition was the International... the Earth, ostensibly for peaceful purposes. The publicity around efforts to place a satellite in Earth orbit generated a lot of public interest, which resulted in many publications. Before the launch of Sputnik,...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
...the human race, and power our future. When someone says to be me, “Psstt, what did you do with your life?”, someday I can say I helped the International Space University, space engineers and the world’s space agencies to start thinking about inventing, building and deploying PSSTT. In the... space agencies to consider what technologies they might conceive and implement to save Earth and the human race. To put not too fine a point on it, now is the ...
