November 2021
Space launch emergency response
... seriously injuring the pilot. It was the first major in-flight failure of the burgeoning commercial human spaceflight industry, and it provided significant lessons for emergency medical response. After investigating the accident, the NTSB advised...
October 2025
Software defined satellites and the ground segment
... launched year on year, which is increasing demand for spectrum allocation, but there are also a variety of new industries and technologies that rely on the spectrum, such as 5G/6G, smart infrastructure, autonomous vehicles and the Internet of Things...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...business plans involve ‘space mining’ for profit. These companies include Planetary Resources Inc, Deep Space Industries, Moon Express, and Shackleton Energy Corporation. There is a great abundance of wealth of natural resources on our six sextillion...
May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
... complexity. As mission requirements grow and evolve at an increasing rate, Dr Barrie Dunn looks at how the global space industry is pushing the boundaries of materials science and is addressing the need for more qualified materials engineers in the...
June 2017
European space business incubators and accelerators
... start-ups to grow, prosper and thrive. There are a rapidly growing number focused exclusively on the space industry. This clustering of young businesses fuels the growing appetite for space technology investment from business angels...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... based on private financing, experimenting with disruptive innovations or commercial-off-the-shelf innovations sourced from other industries). This has led to several publications comparing ‘Old’ Space with ‘New’ Space, which include the proposal...
