August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
... 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...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... 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...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... 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...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... 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...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
... 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...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
..., 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...
