August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... can now easily be compared to the crisis of plastics in the world’s oceans. A tongue-in-cheek adaptation of the Starlink Falcon 9 mission patch. Since the early days of the Space Age, we have witnessed an increasing awareness of the need...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... Technologies (AKA SpaceX), which has introduced an element of reusability to its rockets that others seek to emulate. Today, Falcon 9 first stages are regularly landed at the launch site, or on an ocean-going barge, and more than 50 have...
January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
... US DOD’s SRALT/LRALT, using similar mid-air deployment from a C17 transport aircraft, and then DARPA’s FALCON project which hoped to reduce the cost of small satellite launch with the AirLaunch QuickReach rocket. Where...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... fuel-intensive is a flight to orbit in comparison with a typical air journey? Take SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket. With four people on board, the kerosene needed for an orbital launch comes to 39,000 kg per person...
