February 2020
Investigation of the Coriolis effect in rotating space platforms
...potentially feasible in the short term, we can try to reduce the ship radius arm by a factor of 10 (see, for example, Figure 8). flg. 8 Going... is one of the potential issues, for shorter arm spacecraft and needs to be investigated further. We have...
01 June 2021
Space junk collision highlights need for intervention
... assess the impact, which occurred on one of Canadarm2's boom segments. The damage is limited to a small section of the arm boom and thermal blanket where a hole approximately 5 mm in diameter is visible. Results of the ongoing analysis indicate that...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
...ISS. One of his tasks was to operate the Station’s robotic arm to dock Japan’s first H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV). After his mission... Laboratory Module (MLM) which carries the European Robotic Arm. This was only possible because we have thousands of...
05 August 2015
Air Force and space command ‘merger’ creates Aerospace Forces in Russia
A new branch of Russian armed forces was announced this week by ...merger’ is seen as part of an on-going effort to modernise and overhaul the Russian armed forces. Shoigu is quoted as saying that the merger is the “optimal option” for streamlining...
28 May 2016
Igor Ashurbeyli proposes armed space platform to defend planet Earth - URBOCOP
...proposed that nations should co-operate to build an armed space station capable of tackling both natural and man...– a Universal Robotic Battle Cosmic Platform. It would be an armed, unmanned space station capable of monitoring Earth and space. It would...
March 2016
Space debris conundrum for international law makers
... hostile conflict in space or on Earth, or contribute to an atmosphere of escalatory competition in offensive removal capabilities that leads to an arms race in outer space. Naturally, a State can also freely choose to deem non-functional and remove...
