June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... leads to reduced lifetimes. This makes NewSpace attractive for early-stage equity investors which are interested in a relatively fast return for their investments and thus less interested in long development and amortisation periods, as is the...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... recognise that they have to work together, if their respective businesses are to prosper. This means that the relative level of mutual respect between underwriters and a specific broker can have a financially substantial effect on a client’s bottom...
07 October 2020
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 awarded to three astrophysicists
...direct consequence of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Einstein did not himself believe that black holes ... as the most important contribution to the general theory of relativity since Einstein. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez each lead ...
June 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... was in turn constructed by the Rocketdyne Corporation1, burning a relatively conventional jet fuel. Scramjets had long been seen as a ..., including the X-51A, produce efficient lift with relatively low drag. Sharp leading edges and pointed noses also...
June 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
...hypersonic flight have, for the past five decades, eluded us Relatively close on the heels of these two successes come DARPA’s ...practical hypersonic global and space transportation. Someday relatively soon, when hypersonic vehicles are technically and...
January 2016
How to Build Planets
...the Solar System The origins of a protoplanetary disc start in the relatively small fraction of gas that exists in dense, molecular clouds. These...out of the system. Not only that but if the relative velocity of the colliding grains is too large, the ...
