October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... College London, MS in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech, and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Florida. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork at Spaceport America, worked for the commercial spaceflight industry, and...
April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
...economy. Tourism itself might even benefit if we have scheduled launches - because ‘rocket tourism’ is a phenomenon in places like Florida and French Guiana.” On the environmental side, the consortium is aware of how rocket propellants and debris can...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
... be used to lift objects to a higher graveyard orbit. This image showing the waters of the Bahamas as well as Cuba, Florida, and the US eastern seaboard was captured by LightSail 2 on 16 August 2020. The 32 m2 solar sail spacecraft used sunlight...
05 October 2015
ESTEC opens its doors, 9,000 hi-res Apollo photos go online, and other news from the weekend
... Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture, held its 100th successful launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday. The Atlas V rocket was carrying a Morelos-3 satellite for Mexico’s network of satellites, but The Washington...
03 December 2015
Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Launches Today
... Space Station. The Cygnus is scheduled to launch at 5:55 p.m EST (2255 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. This is the fourth resupply mission performed by Orbital ATK, out...
21 December 2015
SpaceX’s postponed rocket launch due for lift off today
... this evening. The rocket is now scheduled to launch at 8:33 pm ET time Monday (0133 GMT Tuesday) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, said the California-based company. One key aim of SpaceX’s mission, is after lift off, to land the...
