August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... Rocket Lab for contributing to the orbital debris problem. Instead of inspiration, they saw pollution.” Then, in early 2019, the Russian company Orbital Display proposed a constellation of a hundred CubeSats in a 400 km LEO that would unfurl...
April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
... the market for satellite servicing in his article ‘Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites, (ROOM #21, Autumn 2019), the company’s MEV-1 was just about to launch from Baikonur, in Kazakhstan, in what turned out to be a picture-perfect...
December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
... of many early career researchers and young professionals in the space sector, the answer is a resounding ‘No!’ In October 2019, students and young professionals from around the world gathered in Washington DC, for the Space Generation Congress...
April 2024
Agencia Espacial Española – Spain’s future assurance
... Espacial Española (AEE). It followed in the footsteps of its European neighbour Portugal which created a space agency in 2019. During a break on the final day of the Small Satellites & Services International Forum (SSSIF), held in Malaga’s winter...
13 December 2019
Starliner spacecraft could fly as early as next week
... (ISS) after NASA’s Flight Readiness Review (FRR) gave the company the thumbs up for a launch on 20 December, 2019. The Starliner’s Orbital Flight Test, which is a necessary step before the first Starliner launch with astronauts...
11 February 2019
Today marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2019
On 11 February 2019, the United Nations, partners worldwide, women and girls will mark the International Day of Women and ...
