03 May 2019
Debris from India's ASAT test worse than predicted
... months earlier for the purpose of the exercise, sat in an orbit at 300 kilometres, said the country’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO). This distance is below that used by many of the hundreds of working satellites in space...
20 January 2020
ESA facility begins producing oxygen out of simulated moon dust
... applications on the Moon. “Could they be 3D printed directly, for example, or would they require refining?” says ESA research fellow Alexandre Meurisse. “The precise combination of metals will depend on where on the Moon the regolith is acquired...
06 January 2021
India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years
... full reusability”, along with a focus on scramjet engine research. The Liquid Propulsion Systems Center (LPSC) is to ... power its huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. ISRO’s research and development Inertial System’s Unit (IISU) has been asked to...
20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
.... Last month Peijan noted that Chinese boots on the moon will be “entirely possible” by 2030, as long as technological research for crewed moon landings continues, and “as long as the country is determined”, he said. The rocket in question could...
18 October 2021
Netherlands creates international space hotspot
...-ups and scale-ups, education institutes, research organisations, governmental organisations and other (societal)...Space Campus in Noordwijk is an international hotspot for space research and innovation. The unique environment that the Campus offers ...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... resources in the absence of any major government-funded initiative for space debris. In Australia, excellent space debris research outcomes had emerged over 20 years from a series of PPP between government and industry. These PPP sequentially...
