September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
... common than originally thought, and are likely to increase. At the European Conference on Space Debris held in Darmstadt, Germany, in April this year, Holger Krag, Head of the ESA’s Space Debris Office stated: “There are about...
October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
... launch facility was established in Woomera, South Australia, in 1949 as a base for the United Kingdom to assess Germany’s V1/V2 rockets. In 1961, Australia entered into bilateral arrangements with the US through the Transit Navigational Satellite...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
...-D). He is currently part of the INTEGRAL-XMM flight operations team at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. His ESOC experience includes the Columbus/ISS project and the Cassini/Huygens mission. David has...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
... than 400 scientists from Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United States. The bulk of the construction...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
... freely available and many other nations, including Argentina, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Africa, France, Germany, Italy, and Sweden, also provide data from at least some of their satellites openly to all users, without...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... of Maryland, USA, where he has taught technical regulation since 1975. He has been a visiting professor in the UK and Germany in technical regulation and a consultant on technical regulation to numerous government agencies both state and Federal.