September 2023
Satellite manufacturing - building to size, speed and security
... lunar orbit: CAPSTONE and LunIR. The CAPSTONE satellite was developed for Advanced Space and NASA’s Artemis programme, which is creating a new path to the Moon, Mars and beyond. LunIR was the second lunar...
April 2024
Agencia Espacial Española – Spain’s future assurance
... meets with Spanish President Pedro Sánchez 20 May 23 as part of the signing ceremony for Spain joining the Artemis Accords. Historically most of Spain’s investment in the space technology sector had been through ESA. This included...
April 2025
Maximising returns to Earth - the infinite potential of space
.... Practical challenges remain, but Tumlinson suggested these are “way simplified” compared to the complexity of the Artemis architecture, especially if “we leverage fuel depots and repeated in-space refuelling”. Tumlinson urged governments to stop...
April 2026
Exploring Mars – the key issues
... – as if all that were not enough – political conflict. NASA’s new Administrator, Jared Isaacman, is attempting to simplify the Artemis lunar program, but it remains to be seen whether vested interests in the Senate and NASA will let him...
