October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... cargo ship. Dream Chaser is a lifting body spacecraft that launches on a conventional rocket but, like the Space Shuttle, lands as a glider. The seven economic pillars of the City of Houston. Other challenges include the safe containment...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
.... The US has made it State policy to encourage the commercial use of space, even launching private payloads on Space Shuttle missions As for the first concern, while the SREU Act presents itself as a boon for the space...
March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
...UV visible spectrometers (UVS) from standard bench-top laboratory equipment; a visible camera routinely used for Space Shuttle launch imagery; and Near-IR cameras (NIR-cam) used in fibre-optic communications applications. We also discovered a surplus...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... experiments in ‘microgravity’ conditions. On the face of things, it is a more deserving candidate for room in some future Space Shuttle flight than most of the others so far suggested.” Okay, so the topic is regarded as important. And microgravity...
