December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... Redirect Robotic Mission: Robotic Boulder Capture Option Overview”, AIAA SPACE 2014 Conference and Exposition, San Diego, CA, August 2014. 8 Yeomans, D., et al “Deflecting a Hazardous Near Earth Object”, presented at the 1st International Planetary...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... size of the Cubesat. Still expensive, but at NanoRacks customers include high schools (Valley Christian High School in San Jose, California) as well as sophisticated CubeSats from commercial and government customers. A NanoRacks deployer high above...
June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
... Dahmen 13: http://droneproject.nationalsecurityzone.org/uncertainties-remainas- faa-integrates-drones-into-american-skies-josh-solomon/ 14: San Jose Mercury News Business, Look up: The commercial drone market is about to take off, by Patrick May...
June 2015
Bringing technology down to earth
... often complex development projects. As a step forward in that direction, a Swedish aerospace delegation visited NASA Ames in San Francisco, June 2013. The group, which included Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang, was made up of 14 representatives...
October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
... military doctors and nurses, in addition to medical supplies in concert with IOs, NGOs and organisations such as Medicins Sans Frontiers. Understandably, as a result of the nature of the exercise participants, the focus of both of the exercises was...
June 2016
A new microgravity research facility for Central Texas and beyond
... attractive due to its close vicinity and highway connection to the metropolitan areas of Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio and Houston, which are accommodating a variety of universities and research institutions with scientific and engineering...