September 2024
Liberating access to space
... alternative sites? Kevin Seymour: Partnering launch technology and satellite manufacturing fosters collaboration between academia, industry, and government, leading to the development of cutting-edge technologies, robust supply chains, and...
13 July 2016
Reaction Engines sign new deal with ESA while UK Space Agency announces new facility
...technology testing. The planned facility will be based at Westcott in Buckinghamshire and it will allow UK companies and academia to test and develop space propulsion engines including engines geared towards interplanetary travel, along with building...
24 April 2017
Call for international help with space debris
... held at ESA’s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany and was attended by over 350 participants ranging from academia, space organisations and industry. Since the first rocket delivered a satellite into space in the 1950s, a subsequent...
07 May 2018
Smallest rocket by Jaxa sets a Guiness World record
...’s website. “JAXA hopes that the leading technologies illustrated in the SS-520 mission will spread to industries and academia and become available to many.”
14 January 2019
New steam-powered asteroid hopper that could run 'forever'
... (SBIR) awards to advance the technology. Speaking about the project and the collaboration with NASA and academia, Kris Zacny, vice president of Honeybee Robotics said it “had been a tremendous success.” With early promising results...
10 April 2019
Brexit high noon for UK space industry
... itself. Currently functioning as an enabler within the space industry - working on space projects in cooperation with industry and academia - UKSA lacks the staffing and resources it would need to build and administer a national space programme. The...
