September 2016
Small launcher market survey
... and Future Launch Systems,” 29th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (conference paper), Nagoya-Aichi, Japan, 2013. 4“Northstar- The Versatile, Green and Safe Launch Service,” Nammo and Andoya Rocket Range (brochure...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... launch capability but only six of these conduct regular launch operations: China, Europe (via Arianespace), India, Japan, Russia and the USA. Collectively, they conduct 80-90 launches per year (86 in 2015, of which 81 were successful). However...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
.... One Sv over a short period of time will cause acute radiation sickness and 10 Sv is often fatal. Emergency workers at Japan’s Fukashima nuclear plant disaster in 2011 received up to 678 mSv, yet none of them suffered acute radiation sickness...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... sources, show that a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch costs Rs 381 crores; other rockets-a Russian Proton Rs 455 crores; Japan’s H-11A, Chinese Long March, Arianespace Ariane-5 and the American Atlas 5 each cost Rs 6,692 crores. Against...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
... exploration of Mercury, taking over where MESSENGER left off. Once in orbit and using the Usuda 64 m antenna in Japan, the ISAS/JAXA Sagamihara Space Operation Centre, will take over the operation of the MMO. Similarly...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...the end of this century, we will probably only visit a handful with larger spacecraft like NEAR Shoemaker, or Japan’s Hayabusa. But nanosats could be sent in large numbers to examine hundreds of asteroids close up within a generation, at a much lower...
