November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
...and, in 1973, the Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) was introduced by the US Air Force as a tool for military operations. The system used around 30 satellites at an altitude of about 20,000 km and a local receiver to locate a vehicle’s position...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... and defence systems of satellites was quickly pointed out as being strategically unsustainable. The interweaving of civil and military systems had become such that each hostility could lead to a cascade as in the era of nuclear deterrence. This...
February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
..., highly accurate navigation data is being made available for the first time via a civilian rather than military authority. About the interviewee Britta Schade has a Masters Degree in geosciences. She studied natural sciences in Cologne...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... Moon (Scientific Publishing, 1937) by Akkan Pseudoman (pseudonym for Edwin Northrup). Post-war push The German military’s interest in the activities of its rocketeers and in particular the potential for rockets to be used as missiles, was extremely...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
.... Adopting a fixed boundary based on the spatialist approach would seem to be simpler and perhaps most logical. Yet, as military technology develops, countries are unwilling, for strategic reasons, to specify an upper limit beyond which they can...
January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
...25 years of executive experience and board positions across military and private sectors. He is an experienced programme ... lead for Space Operations in the Royal Navy, he left military service to co-found Astraius in 2020, specifically to deliver a...
