October 2019
Asgardia’s calendar and its role in space industrialisation strategy
... (the top row in each cell of the calendar matrix), which saves tens of thousands of tonnes of paper, dyes, printing and transportation costs. With constant (fixed) rows of numbers in the calendar matrix of the permanent calendar and...
October 2019
Making the most of Blockchain in space
.... Currently, our monetary systems are highly centralised. Central banks set policy and interest rates, and print money. For a thousand years, since the early banking of the Knights Templar during the crusades, the...
April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
... was the only way forward, but what propellant can accomplish all of this? The advances in 3D printing now allow for significant increases in design complexities, previously unattainable through traditional engineering. These complexities also ...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
...established industries to repurpose them for space – like new materials, mining to extract water, oxygen and inks to print spare parts, agriculture to grow food in inhospitable terrain, space object tracking, and space exploration. The identification...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... at the ability of the same facility to then manufacture the structural parts for new satellites by adding in-orbit 3D printing facilities. Welcome to SpaceBar Space heritage The final response - take a look at it first and then decide - was...
February 2021
Why flat panel antennas remain a challenge
...the Satcoms Innovation Group (SIG), a business grouping for the global broadcast satellite industry. An array antenna printed on a flat panel. Getting the right data For the majority of customers, there is little to no understanding of the challenges...
