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...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
...software-defined radio or optical communications equipment. Launched in 2019, ESA’s OPS-SAT mini-satellite is a technology ... participate in ESA’s OPS-SAT mission, launched in December 2019. Under his leadership, the company was accepted into the ...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...2021) and Mars (2014), but it was not until 2019 that the Indian space programme developed an explicit military dimension ... American shoot down of NROL 21 (2008); the Indian test (2019) and then the Russian Nudol explosion (2021). Moreover, they make...
