28 February 2024
SSSIF consolidates position as Europe's leading NewSpace event
... economy have grown exponentially over the last few years. Between 2013 and 2022, some 30 percent of exploration missions were targeted on the lunar environment, with a total budget of $58.8 billion. Between 2023 and 2032, it is expected that...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
... + Partners As a concept, the LavaHive approach is a great example of how ISRU and 3D printing can be combined to enable exploration missions on the Martian surface. Many of the concepts, like the sintering of regolith, are already being proposed for...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... much further out, so perhaps Ceres is a Kuiper belt object. Two missions currently under development will also address small body migration concepts. JAXA’s Martian Moons Exploration mission (MMX) will go to the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
...constellations, and the fourth phase of the China Lunar Exploration Program. Overall, despite the 2020s having begun with... year, and future Chang’e missions, deep space exploration missions and even human lunar missions planned for later in the decade...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
... and space segments and between space assets, and effectively enhance communications networks for deep space exploration missions. Space imagery processing that once took humans hours, days or weeks to review and analyse can be automated...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
...surpassed the US as the country with the most annual launches - in 2021 alone it launched 55 missions. Furthermore, China is conducting historic space exploration missions and is racing the US to land humans on the Moon and ultimately to build a base...
