October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
... Tatiana-1 (32kg) and Tatiana-2 (90kg) while the Ufa State Aviation and Technology University launched UGATU-SAT (40kg). The Moscow Aviation Institute launched MAK-1 and MAK-2 (just 20kg each) and created, together...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... loose, painterly style was in great contrast to Bonestell’s tight, photographic technique. One could imagine that he had sat there with his easel, painting en plein aire. Or, in the case of the Moon, en plein espace! At first these...
September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
... we held art studios in which NASA astronauts Nicole Stott, Kate Rubins, Reid Wiseman and Ellen Baker sat and painted on the suit with our patients and their families, and I was also able to arrange...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... to tumble in recent years. In April 2014, Cornell University’s Kickstarter project consisting of 104 one-inch square ‘chip sats’ (known as Sprite satellites) were carried inside a Cubesat onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The role of this mission...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
.... And yet this technological weakness of our society was known. Lunar future. Climate forecasting The met’Sat one-month forecast of air quality and rainfall allowed a giant leap forward in anticipating seasonal disasters and...
September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... pre-sold its nanosatellite communications bandwidth, having secured commercial contracts through its first wholesale operator, Sat-Space Africa and BeepTool. An initial agreement was also signed with Globalsat Group, which provides mobile...
