29 June 2015
SpaceX Falcon 9 failure: will launch markets and manned spaceflight be affected?
...SpaceX than it does about the tremendous financial risks associated with spaceflight as a whole. Perhaps the most immediate threat is now to U.S. plans of restarting manned spaceflight. As New Scientist has already pointed out, Falcon 9 is the rocket...
12 July 2019
NASA reassigns top leaders in Moon 2024 programme
... Administrator Jim Bridenstine has informed staff that key figures, including the widely respected director of human spaceflight Bill Gerstenmaier, will be replaced as part of a major shake-up at the agency. The move, which has come as a shock...
06 January 2021
India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years
.... The Gaganyaan Programme, will receive “a lion’s share of ISRO’s technology development & advanced R & D activities,” to help sustain human spaceflight activities in the long term, Kivan said in the New Years message. This would be a boost from last...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... Industries’ lobbyists essentially wrote the Space Competitiveness Act for the congressmen who supplied it. The Commercial Spaceflight Federation which was set up by some of the most eminent names in the commercial space industry (ie, SpaceX, Blue...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
The typical constraints of spaceflight mean that the mass, the volume, the power supply and the data feed of pieces of equipment ...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
Today, after more than half a century of spaceflight, our activities in space are still limited to a relatively small number of technical disciplines and missions, while human ...
