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...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... such as NASA’s centennial challenges or the upcoming Global Space Elevator and Mechatronics Challenge, led by the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA). Space infrastructure will be increasingly important as it demands the performance of a heavy...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
... teams were Team Indus, from India, having both a lander and a rover, and Team Hakuto, from Japan, with a rover being carried as a passenger on the Team Indus lander. In October 2017, the Mission Plan Reviews...
