February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
... institutions from developing countries the opportunity to deploy cube satellites from the Japanese Kibo module of the International Space Station (ISS). With JAXA, we recently selected the first successful candidates for this programme - a team...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
...Right on the doorstep of the International Astronautical Congress, the South Australian Aviation...home of space tracking facilities initially established in conjunction with the International Geophysical Year (IGY). Transferred to NASA on its creation,...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... vicinity and surface-near-term mission scenario of the Global Space Exploration Roadmap,” 66th International Astronautical Congress, Jerusalem, Israel, 2016. 6 G. Ishigami, A. Miwa y K. Yoshida, «Slope traversal controls for planetary exploration...
September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... (1,200 miles) or less above the planet - is becoming an increasingly crowded space. When I spoke at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide in 2017, I described SAS as a “schizophrenic company” with a vision that at first glance...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...[Accessed 14 10 2018]. 7 J. Pearson, “Konstatin Tsiolkovski and the Origins of the Space Elevator,” in 48th International Astronautical Congress, Turin, Italy, 1997. 8 J. Pearson, “The orbital tower: a spacecraft launcher using the Earth’s rotational...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... Musk put it in his 2016 talk at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico: “I really think there are ... appeared in Space.com, LiveScience, Futurity, the International Business Times, Popular Science, Caltech’s E&S magazine,...
