June 2015
Promoting growth at geostationary orbit with a one-stop-shop
... we were beginning to suffer a perception issue. People thought that we were all about servicing developing countries and academia with lower orbiting spacecraft. But we’ve always thought way beyond that. I think space is in its infancy. I equate...
November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
..., the plan delineates a series of steps that are being executed in coordination with local governments, industry and academia. Among these steps are the creation of several Regional Space Centres dedicated to R&D in space technology. Currently, AEM...
January 2021
What it takes to be a space entrepreneur
... the purview of the government. But MILO shows it can be the purview of academia, which is where it started anyway. Which sectors of the space economy, academia, etc, could most benefit from some good ideas? Creative people tend...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
More than half a century into the space age, commercial drivers are beginning to supplant military and geopolitical considerations in the exploitation of near-Earth space. How should we adapt our traditional institutions to benefit from and ...
March 2015
Space weather: the public & policy
... UK it has been included in the National Risk Register since 2012, and is subject of ongoing work, across government, academia and key industries, not only to mitigate that threat through a mixture of measures, including forecasting of space weather...
June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
... 2003. Beagle 2 hitched a ride to Mars on ESA’s Mars Express mission and was a collaboration between industry and academia. It would have delivered world-class science from the surface of the Red Planet. Many UK academic groups...
