August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
..., it faces some of its biggest opposition. Regulations, many of which many were written long ago during the Cold War, come into play. While commercial satellites (and to that end commercial CubeSats) were recently removed from...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
..., operational and engineering sphere - has grown out of military considerations originally set in a two-sided cold war; today it is driven by both modern nationalistic defence and intelligence interests and, increasingly, commercial interests...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
... day. Spaceplanes were not developed at the time because the ‘space race’ to the Moon, driven by the Cold War soaked up the available funding. The aircraft company design teams were allowed to disband and the lobby...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... in the space community for many years that the Apollo programme suffered from the wrong motivation (Cold War) and the wrong approach (flags and footprints), the true answer to what happened lies embedded in recent...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... - a non-profit organisation seeking to preserve the memory of all those who toiled during the intense competition of a Cold War that saw humankind leap into space - believes it is not the United States, but the United Nations...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
...provide information “promptly”. Given the enormous technological progress since the 1970s and the absence of Cold War antagonisms, “as soon as practicable” can be inferred as “promptly”. At present the delay in registering satellites generally stands...
