June 2022
Pandemic parallels
... to manage this with regular Earth contact and crew care packages, intended to help make space feel a bit more like home. During the SFINCSS-99 simulation, one participant recounted her great appreciation for the...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... 3000 metres long, weather stations, radar, an ATM station, harbour and a teleport and tracking station! Tell us a bit more about your commitment to sustainability, which features as a headline statement on your stand here at the IAC in Paris...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
...-burning particulates, small enough to penetrate the tightest of seams.” In short, as SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell admits, Mars is a bit of a “fixer-upper of a planet”. Okay, but how do you fix up a planet? Isn’t this already the question...
April 2024
Commercial launch development in Spain
... 5 full scale production. It’s taken you a number of years to get to this position, as you said. Tell us a little bit about the history of PLD Space. We founded the company as space enthusiasts. We were at university, working in a kind of rocketry...
May 2024
Prioritising space solutions to accelerate sustainable development
... is what it means to embed ‘space by design’ into the fabric of an economy. But I would invite you to think a little bit further than this. We are all affected by current global challenges. Climate change is one of them; political stability...
October 2024
Virtualisation of the satellite sector
... satellites. High Throughput Satellite (HTS) platforms have increased bandwidth and performance and lowered price-per-bit. Payloads are now often software-defined, highly flexible and configurable in orbit with steerable and splitable...
