January 2020
A year of consolidation and expansion
... were received from Science Minister Floris Wuyts, who reported on a hugely successful science and investment conference in Germany, and from legal expert Ram Jakhu, who was instrumental in the original creation of the idea of Asgardia...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
... enterprise having governments as customers, because Nanoracks is using its own, self-funded hardware. If I get NASA or ESA or Germany’s DLR as a customer after I’ve created the hardware, and the contract is based on my terms and conditions, then...
February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
... system is to serve its purpose in the years to come. The European Patent Office in the Isar Building in Munich, Germany. Both the US Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office have been working on accelerated...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... night. This image is composed of 300 short 13-second exposures taken within 70 minutes of each other from Waldenburg, Germany, on the night of the Perseids meteor shower 12 August 2018. The image has a field of view of 84 x62 degrees...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... night. This image is composed of 300 short 13-second exposures taken within 70 minutes of each other from Waldenburg, Germany. Most of the dozen lines are made by satellites reflecting the sunlight from the Sun below the...
May 2021
Taking quantum into space
... a WCP source on their microsatellite in collaboration with UK researchers and SMEs as well as an indigenous entangled source on the ground. Germany, early this year also launched their quantum comms CubeSat, and the US and India also have...
