July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
...); and ESA’s Commercial Partnerships and Commercial Lunar Mission Support Services (CLMSS) for the provision of lunar communications and navigation services. A European Large Logistic Lander could enable a series of proposed ESA missions to the Moon...
August 2021
Robotic systems for psychological support
... International Space Station (ISS) is currently using standard types of psychological support for astronauts: audio and video communication with relatives via satellite Internet; the ability to watch movies and TV series, and listen to music; the...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
...and rocket propellants is well known among the space community, as is the potential for mining minerals from... constructing lunar settlements, mineral prospecting, setting up communications and navigation aids, assembling engineering units for drawing ...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
... being made. The Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station in Cornwall has been redeveloped for an essential deep space communication role in support of launch and satellite operation services. Surrey Satellite Centre has expertise in small/medium spacecraft...
February 2022
FPGA computing reaches new heights
..., making them an ideal solution for a wide range of markets from image processing to medical applications and wireless communications. Alpha Data’s development timeline. Alpha Data and FGPAs Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) circuits are...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... something that happened overnight. Military and intelligence space programmes, such as spy satellites and military satellite communications systems, have been deliberately hidden for most of our ‘Global Space Age’. Seventy years of techno-industrial...
