November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... the emergence of start-ups such as Planet Labs, OneWeb and Rocket Lab are defining a new age in the space industry... Japan, is building a small launcher comparable to those of Rocket Lab or PLD Space. Astroscale, a company based in Singapore but run ...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
...protected to test radiation conditions on growing plants. The food lab is located at the lunar south pole, near Shackleton crater....becoming a garden with attached production units. The food lab could eventually turn into a restaurant for visitors from...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
...bandwidth has increased For example, an analysis by Descartes Labs, using data from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel... difference” as “instead of going to university and commercial labs, the deliveries were sent to customers’ homes where they will...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
...academic Alice Gorman said, “Astronomers weren’t happy, saying it would confuse astronomical observations… Some lambasted Rocket Lab for contributing to the orbital debris problem. Instead of inspiration, they saw pollution.” Then, in early 2019, the...
June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
... and is the director of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Lab (CAV-Lab) in the department of Mechanical Engineering Sciences. Dr Fallah...Assistant for the ADSS project at the University of Surrey’s CAV-Lab. She is also the CEO of ADSS Technology Ltd, a...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... companies of recent years (such as SPIRE, Rocket Lab and Astra) are presently envisaging stock exchange listings via...leaders in the latest generation of space ventures, having built Rocket Lab into a multifaceted company since 2006, backed by a host ...
