October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
...in the first place In my book I trace the commercial space race (as many have before), but rather than focus on its ...through a realm of expertise as new as the commercial space race: outer space anthropology. And it is through this lens of expertise ...
15 June 2020
Skyrora hits a milestone with suborbital rocket launch
UK’s space race is heating up following a milestone suborbital rocket launch –... reusable rocket that can provide valuable intelligence for the future of the UK space programme.” It comes after Skyrora successfully completed a full static fire test on...
March 2016
Time for European visionary goals
... brothers did not make their historic flight, or if the Space Race did not bring out the best of two giant superpowers? ... of the 55th anniversary of the first human flight into space, these are the visionary decisions Europe’s leaders should take ...
29 March 2018
Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars
...disturbed by this” and even “fought against it”, but he is “no longer distressed by the robots winning the ultimate space race”. He even goes as far as to suggest that the experience will be “more satisfying”, because we’ll be able to do so much more...
25 April 2018
New Skyrora launch vehicle focused on UK lift-off!
...cater for the small satellite market by providing low-cost access to space from a UK spaceport, is working hard to finalise plans for ... added, “The Space Bill and UK spaceport plans have brought about a new kind of space race - a commercial one.”
08 January 2023
Spaceflight
... the gamut of spaceflight - from “dreams and military imperatives” and the “Cold War space race”, via science, exploration and the space infrastructure, to “Astroculture” and human spaceflight - in six pithy chapters. The account is predominantly...
