July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... its privileged relationship with space-pioneer Russia, the idea to develop together an ad hoc space vehicle was envisioned. However, the cost-effective and reliable Russian medium-lift launcher Soyuz, mostly used for injection...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... space travel include Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, who is developing a spacecraft that flies like those envisioned in early science fiction novels. Robert Bigelow, founder of the Budget Suites hotel chain, is test-flying inflatable...
October 2016
Unlocking the potential of annular ion engines
... AIE PPU would be driven by the intended application. In applications requiring either high F/P, or high power, one can envision a reduced input voltage range into the PPU (reduced from the NEXT PPU requirement of 80-160 V), and...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... happen? How did the lack of space development, specifically the failure to build a cislunar infrastructure (as first envisioned by Werner von Braun and later elaborated on by Gerard K. O’Neill), help restrict technological innovation to only a few...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... it will require a resource mining capability to augment supplies brought to space from Earth. Forms of self-replicating machines, as envisioned by Eric Drexler and Richard Feynman, would vastly accelerate the deep space capability. These wouldn...
April 2018
Developing Mars
.... Equipment runs semi-autonomously under telerobotic control of crews housed in comfort at Omaha Crater. The envisioned telerobotic mining operation is based on telerobotic mining technology under development today. Greenhouses - general store...
