October 2019
Space-based cybersecurity challenges for NATO
... satellite aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on 31 January 2019. Reliance on private sector assets in space has grown greatly... negotiating space policy between NATO member states on 8 August 2019. It is clear that human societies are dependent on space...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... of its new astronaut capsule, Starliner, in December 2019 after it suffered technical problems that prevented it docking ... Rover after the first soft landing on the Moon in January 2019. China’s Chang’e programme has three steps - a robotic programme...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
...deadline” of 31 March 2018. Despite this, on 11 April 2019, the Foundation awarded US$1 million to the Israeli non-profit organisation...announced its fully-funded ‘Mission One’ in September 2019. Its unusual and innovative lunar rover will be delivered...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
... example, Space Logistics’ MEV-1 was launched in October 2019 and successfully docked with Intelsat 901 in early 2020 to... demonstrations have also taken place, notably with the 2019 demonstration of fluid transfer on the International Space Station...
20 April 2020
New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet
...comet. Both collected data from observations taken between December 2019 and January 2020, when the comet was at a... constant with a possible maximum occurring around 30 December 2019. From their observations, the teams calculated that 2I/Borisov...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
...was launched and deployed from a SpaceX Falcon on 21 February 2019 with an anticipated landing on the lunar surface some weeks ... the flight model prior to its planned February 2019 launch. Smithsonian approach The Smithsonian Institution’s National ...
