July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
... vehicle (RLV) could be developed that flew back and forth from LEO safely, reliably, and within a cycle time of days, launch costs would plummet by more than an order of magnitude to less than $1,000/ kg. A likely result...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
... improve our understanding of the amount of carbon stored in plants and their role in the carbon and water cycles, and is also used to optimise agricultural productivity Thus, for many space service start-ups, access to the...
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...
