December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... – the ionising light waves that are known to vary much more with the 11-year solar activity cycle than visible light – is monitored by an EUV detector. The one imager on MAVEN captures the appearance of the Mars...
December 2014
From the green economy to green space
..., white, green model described above). The main approaches are: i) systemic approach; ii) omnidirectional life-cycle coverage; iii) transition to a green technological way of thinking through managing the technology spectrum (prohibition of black...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
...consuming in-house development. Further, open source markets are well documented to have generally faster innovation cycles than closed proprietary technologies. The nanosatellite community of developers utilizes open source technologies because they...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... based on inertia, in the framework of partially-closed national space programs and the tradition of slow approbation cycles and new technology implementation, allowed space exploration to remain somewhat on the side-lines of global technological...
June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
... anticipates that drones will revolutionise small-package delivery, where the so-called last mile of the delivery cycle accounts for 70% of the cost.8 It is expected that deliveries of goods or medication will be first in remote areas as operations...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... technology and workforce development. This will enable the proposed range of users to exercise the concept development cycle, produce working prototypes that solve problems for the space sector and provide an application path for...
