March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... will rapidly achieve critical mass by aggregating research efforts injected by its participants. SERC will not itself exploit its research outputs, but will license them to participants or other entities. SERC expects its technology to be applied...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
... of the interim steps in their business, receiving profit not from the sale of spacecraft, but from their exploitation. Where the real competition is Therefore, different models currently on the market vary in their proximity to the final...
March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... high data-rate optical LEO-to-GEO links at rates up to 2.8 Gbit/s,and a Q/V band payload preparing the commercial exploitation of Q-V Band, in response to the market demand for high data rates and more bandwidth. Also hosted is an Advanced...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... cooperation. There are also existing relations between ESA and EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) and other organisations. “At the same time,” explains Woerner, “there is a clear need to develop...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... possibilities for cold atmospheric plasmas in space. Thus the plasma research, which started in space and is being exploited in medicine on Earth, could now return to space for the benefit of the astronauts and cosmonauts, who carried...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... escape. Cooperation keeps nations beyond the Chandrasekhar limits of over-expenditure in space and would enable space to be exploited more effectively and optimally. International cooperation is the connecting glue that helps dodge the black holes...
