... financial (including insurance) burdens. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo craft alongside the signature feature of Spaceport America, the Gateway to Space building, which serves as a hangar and training centre. The New Mexico spaceport has been...
... communications. In all three cases, internet connections are supplied over a small region by a local broadcasting router, gateway or antenna, which is eventually connected to the global network via fibre optic cables. However, such architecture...
... the beginning of a journey that will take humans farther into the Solar System than ever before. Gateway to exploration Concrete plans to develop a cis-lunar outpost in a Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) around the Moon...
... ground missions in the 2020s, NASA plans to use the Block 1B vehicle to loft elements of its deep space gateway and transport system to cislunar space. In its ultimate Block 2 configuration, SLS will be capable of delivering more than...
... characterise such systems in relevant environments such as the International Space Station or NASA’s proposed Deep Space Gateway. Below: Experimental algae monitoring equipment at the University of Colorado Boulder. Bottom: Three different varieties...
..., whereby large, expensive satellites are replaced with fleets of easily replaced smallsats. A private plane on the ‘Gateway to Space’ apron at Spaceport America. This changing landscape posed severe challenges for the antecedent regulatory regime...