12 May 2021
ESA signs contract with Swiss agency to clean space debris
...grappling the washing machine-sized payload adapter (with a four-armed claw), decelerating it down to the low Earth orbit and allowing ...the debris and the arm to burn during re-entry. "Our 'tow truck' design will ...
12 November 2021
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts arrive at ISS
... spacesuit. It is expected he will perform a Russian spacewalk to support the installation and first operations of the European Robotic Arm (ERA) that travelled to the Station with the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) on 29 July this year...
July 2014
Achilles’ heel
... the requirement for extensive national infrastructure, leading to sustainable and rapid growth in these emerging markets. The armed forces have long used satellite imagery, communications and GNSS. Today, the demand for space services...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... vehicle has so far carried about 40 foreign satellites (under a commercial agreement with Antrix Corporation, the business arm of ISRO) and 30 indigenous ones. This 44.4 metre tall rocket has logged nearly 25 successful launches since its...
June 2015
The day Philae landed: how a rough touchdown still made history at the Rosetta Mission
... trivial and so many people are involved that things became distracting. People were speaking on the voiceloop, arms were going up in triumph and celebrations were beginning. I was left thinking, ‘Did I miss something? Why does...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... other military activity. See Blair Stephenson Kuplic (2014), ‘The Weaponization of Outer Space: Preventing an Extraterrestrial Arms Race.” North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation, Vol 39, p.1123 27: Lotta Viikari, (2008...
