February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
... has given research teams in recent years the opportunity to conduct microgravity experiments at the Bremen Drop Tower in Germany. Also under the HSTI, an agreement signed this year between UNOOSA and the China Manned Space...
March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
... the Italian dialect word ‘slipper’] were resoundingly contradicted. A few days after the launch, at a trade show in Germany, orders begin to rain in. Hundreds. Thousands. Today, some 40 years later, we can count 23 million pairs sold. And...
March 2017
Planetary nebulae may hold clue in search of helium-3
... telescope of the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR) is located in a protected valley near Bad Münstereifel-Effelsberg, Germany. It is one of the two largest fully steerable single-dish radio telescopes in the world and a unique high...
March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
... clocks over 2.5 years, we calculated that we would receive the first signal between 18:30 and 19:30 local time in Darmstadt, Germany. Sylvain with his team, Andrea, Manfred, myself and a few others were eagerly waiting for the...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
...” (Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Space Debris (ESA SP-587), April 2005, ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, April 2005) [unpublished], at 285. 15 See Schildknecht, et al, supra note [11]. Used with permission. 16 MA Skinner, et al, “Time...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... on February 15. India has flown 180 foreign satellites for 23 countries, the first one being DLR Tubsat of Germany on 26 May 1999. A spokesperson for San Francisco-based Planet which flew 88 of its satellites in ISRO’s recent mission...
