March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
...: from providing data to the operators to full vertical integration within the company. New players, such as Planet Labs, Dauria Aerospace and the aforementioned Skybox Imaging are competing with operators such as Digital Globe, and...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
... project. Inspired by unconventional ventures such as the MIT Management School’s ‘We Are Smarter than Me’, our Lunar Missions Labs will encourage creative online workshops where anyone, anywhere in the world, will be able to collaborate with others...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... Planet Center of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory who will then send their findings to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA for analysis. Then the data will be made public. We are at the beginning of a new era, where...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
... at a time when this mission was only a proposal concept. We spent the first six years or so simply doing lab-based demos to prove that we could actually achieve the photometric precision necessary with our instruments and...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
...different plasma properties to apply in medical therapy, an interesting new approach is currently being developed in many research labs worldwide. From Earth back to space There is another important property of cold atmospheric plasma - it is a fully...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
..., in software or hardware, no longer needs to take place in the aerospace world to end up in space. It can be in an office in Washington DC, an electronics lab in South Korea, or startup in Silicon Valley.
