February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
...to further reduce cost by avoiding costly transport of satellites to launch pads in the USA, French Guiana, Russia or Japan, and increase launch frequency. In addition, becoming a spaceport is a very promising opportunity for smaller coastal airports...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
... 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...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) in 2019 or 2020. These missions will be led by the United States, Japan and Italy. Several of the missions will be science-led investigations to better observe the permanently shadowed craters...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
...from geostationary orbit, it is most efficiently received at low latitudes, where much of the Earth’s population growth is occurring. Japan is studying this technology intensively due to its resource challenges. The most highly developed designs have...
