May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... to catch up with the quickly evolving reality. Innovative new commercial entrants, funded by venture capital and armed with disruptive technologies and perspectives, along with many traditionally non spacefaring nations, are now competing ...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... (and potential military) advantages to be gained through space-related technology and we appear to be locked into a true ‘space arms race’. It is within the realms of reality that outer space may itself become an emerging theatre of warfare. The...
August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
... of eclipse, which may negatively impact vision-based operations. Artist impression of Restore-L servicer extending its robotic arm to grasp and refuel a client satellite on orbit. Tele-robotic missions are impacted by communication latencies and...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
..., based in Palo Alto, recently received US$20 million in new investment, including US$5 million from In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the US intelligence community. Orbital Insights gathers its data through contracts with EO data owners and the ...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
... for ISRO. Similarly, EO data distribution to Indian users is performed by the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), an arm of ISRO dealing with remote sensing data reception, processing and dissemination to users. However, with NewSpace companies...
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... away from the Earth), and can be used to establish a physical link using either a probe or a set of grappling arms fitted to the tug. Attaching a space tug to a cooperative, stable target spacecraft is not a trivial engineering challenge, but...
