September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
...is promoting brainstorming activities with space and nonspace actors in order to agree on potential ways forward Bartolomeo: Airbus DS proposes to operate an unpressurised platform on the ISS to host external payloads. The platform would be installed...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
...-B over Satellite’ project. Early experiments showed that the idea was feasible and, on 13 June 2013, an A320 Airbus overflying Scotland was the first aircraft ‘seen’ from space. When the receiving device, on board the...
November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
... the EJ200 (Typhoon) engine, Chief Engineer of the EJ200, RB199 (Tornado), Adour (Hawk/Jaguar) & Trent 900 (Airbus A380) programmes, Technical Director of the Eurojet Turbo GmbH consortium based in Munich, and Chief Engineer, Civil...
February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
... the airport is a cluster of large aerospace companies, including Spirit Aerosystems, which manufactures wing components for Airbus and Boeing aircraft, and UTC Aerospace Systems, a major supplier to international space programmes. There is also...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... of Marine Litter’ by funding two parallel contracts - RESMALI, led by Argans Limited, UK (team including: the University of Cadiz, Airbus and The Ocean Cleanup) and OPTIMAL, led by the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK. The project has two...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... ‘Next STEP-2’ and ESA’s new initiatives are taking the possibilities seriously. Commercial interests like Metalysis, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Thales Alenia and SSTL are all looking at what might be possible. Planetary scientist Dr Katherine...
