October 2025
Europe’s unified vision for space governance and growth
As Europe enters a defining phase of its space ambitions, the fifth European Space Forum unfolded in Brussels in July, just weeks after the ...
16 July 2018
Science begins with South Africa's super radio telescope
..., the next stage will be to add a further 133 dishes in Karoo and then in 2030 when the second phase of the SKA kicks in, the network of dishes will be extended into eight African partner countries, meaning that...
July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
...components are already available, such as rocket and nuclear technology. The creation of the long-term reaction phase is a different matter. A great deal of scientific and technical problems need to be solved. Questions of international law There are...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
...capacity will be at least 1.4 Gbit/day during the Ganymede phase. To perform its mission, the spacecraft will have a delta...and the transfer to a Ganymede-bound trajectory during the science phase at Jupiter, whose main events are given in Table 2. The...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... to seven years to address the three key technical challenges mentioned above. Pending successful completion of this research phase, a second phase lasting up to ten years will entail building a scaled prototype system. The cost estimate for such...
May 2024
The challenges of satellite communications on the move
...to the market This article is by no means intended to cover all of the challenges that systems engineers face in implementing a phased array antenna on a moving platform, simply to point out some of the key technical challenges where innovative ideas...
