August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
... territories. The landscape at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida is gradually changing with commercial companies like Boeing and SpaceX appearing on once exclusively government territory. Authorisation of space activities by the appropriate state...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
... become economical. By the 1960s, large aircraft companies in Europe and the USA such as British Aircraft Corporation, Boeing, Dassault, Hawker Siddeley, Lockheed, Martin and others, were studying orbital spaceplanes in depth. The consensus was...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... satellites [8], projects underway to launch new constellations of many thousands of satellites - such as SpaceX, Google, OneWeb, Boeing and others [9] - could increase the global inventory by several orders of magnitude. The Australian economy, and...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... income. This artist’s view of future Moon exploration (bearing more than a passing similarity to Apollo) was released by Boeing in April as a concept supporting NASA’s Deep Space Gateway. Basically, this allows the progeny of the wealthy to dominate...
February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
...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 GE Caledonian, which...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
... also conducted with algae and humans soon after, both in Russia and the United States. In 1960, Boeing built eight photobioreactors holding 380 litres of algae and the system as a whole was capable of supporting one...
