17 May 2021
European startup to produce oxygen from lunar soil for ESA 2025 mission
... split to produce oxygen and recover the hydrogen. Although the contract is to develop and deliver a set of 3 reactors Space Applications Systems says it aims to establish a commercially viable lunar plant delivering oxygen. ESA’s call out for new...
November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
...capacities are usually the most affected by the effects of climate change. Particularly relevant to the use of space applications, specifically remote sensing, in supporting SDGs are Principles X and XI, which establish that remote sensing activities...
May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
...) materials and lubricants with very low-outgassing under vacuum properties are being specially developed for space applications. Special surface treatments are being formulated and processed to be both very hard and adherent to their substrates...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... become the focus. The diagram (left) shows some examples of technologies developed for space applications that have clear and direct benefits for terrestrial applications and vice versa. This is by no means a complete list and, as always for...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
...area, the net gains from opening up such an opportunity are limited only by the imagination of space app developers. Examples of such applications include: IoT (Internet of Things) and M2M (machine to machine communications), where low-bandwidth/high...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
...services. Satellites, invisibly embedded in many aspects of our modern lives, are our servants in space There are three, primary satellite applications today. Satellite telecommunications, remote sensing and Precision Navigation and Timing (PNT). The...
