December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... and storage, photovoltaics, energy storage, life support systems, robotics and space weather effects. Once a list of prospective technologies was formulated, each area was subsequently analysed against a set of criteria in order to narrow down the...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... have already individually achieved key milestones towards this goal, but a joint approach offers the best prospect of early success. The CRC is funded to 30 June 2019, and because the research co-opts existing programs, it has...
March 2015
Sowing a new dream
... be interesting to children, to both expand their horizons and improve their knowledge. We also have to consider the prospect of outreach, visualisation and implementation of concepts that people on Earth can relate to. For instance, the spinning top...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
... of relatively low-cost business models can enter the market occupied by large vertically integrated companies. The prospects of using small spacecraft are directly related to improving serial production, increasing market-oriented data flow and...
June 2015
Training space tourists to fly to the ISS at the Gagarin Centre
... State Russian Science & Research Experimental Cosmonaut Training Centre, 2008. 2 Concepts, trends and prospects of development of international manned space flight. B. I. Kryuchkov, A. A. Kuritsyn, V. I. Yarpolov. Federal State Institution, The...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... not gone unanswered. After much searching, the European Space Agency has settled on a look for its prospective launch vehicle, Ariane-6, which is meant to cater to the needs of both market sectors, as well as reflect the desire...
