July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... middle road that I have attempted to describe in The Cosma Hypothesis: Implications of the Overview Effect (Multiverse Publishing, 2019). The hypothesis argues that the universe is interconnected, evolving and self-aware, in the sense that humans...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
... a prototype Microwave Electrothermal Thruster and worked on hollow cathode neutralisers for the RIT 2X ion thruster. In 2019, he co-founded NSS with Manuel. Georg Herdrich is a scientist, engineer, and expert on space-relevant plasmas. He is Head...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
...NASA’s return-to-the-Moon plans but the agency announced in 2019 that this approach was no longer a priority and that... integrated lunar lander instead (top). No specifics Nevertheless, in 2019, NASA had authorised Boeing to start work on 10 more core...
April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... and services, thereby increasing the consumption of cloud services, whether for compute, storage or network capabilities. In mid-2019, Descartes Labs built the first system on the TOP500 fastest supercomputers list to run completely on public cloud...
25 January 2019
OneWeb targets mid-February for launch of first satellites
...30 satellites at a time on a monthly basis starting later in 2019 and will begin customer demos in 2020 with full 24-hour global... build our system in space. "One of many launches in 2019, we are excited to begin building our constellation and to see...
18 October 2019
Companies unite to reject SpaceX satellite plans
... satellite launches. “According to ITU records, SpaceX has submitted a total of twenty ITU filings – all with an October 7, 2019, registry date – to be evaluated in connection with its NGSO system. On its face, this suggests that SpaceX is attempting...
