March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
... development hardware to support R&D processes. Since the compact Gecko imaging payload first flew in 2017 as a technology demonstrator on the nSight-1 satellite, SAC and ISIS worked to package the imager as a standalone RGB imaging payload for...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... doubt, this is one of the most important questions of our age. Is our Earth, teaming with life as it so demonstrably is, really an exception in an immense but uninhabited universe full of galaxies, each with billions of stars surrounded by planetary...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
...daily lives and, as it rapidly pervades the healthcare sector amongst others, we’re beginning to see more cases that demonstrate its positive presence. Here, Barbara Ghinelli explains the importance of cross-fertilisation between space technology and...
July 2020
The four horsemen of space finance
... past ten years. Not only have key technologies such as launch reusability and 3D printing in space been demonstrated successfully, the nature of space finance has also evolved significantly. Ten years ago, the industry struggled...
January 2021
How the UK space sector is levelling up with support from its science facilities
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the crucial importance for businesses to be nimble and to embrace new technologies – and space technology is central for ...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
... the lunar surface. The ideal balance between astronaut and robotic contributions in this activity has yet to be demonstrated, but history shows us that the concept of lunar mining is at least possible. The missions of the Apollo programme...
