February 2018
Are we asking the right questions about space debris?
... LEO as the collisions will be the most consequential and the collision rate is significant. Assurance of immediate spaceflight safety as the primary objective has encouraged us to examine the possible short-term, highly consequential events (rather...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
..., which reduced the astronaut’s role to little more than a passenger. During the flight of Faith 7, the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, there were mission-threatening technical problems. After experiencing power failure in the capsule...
08 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 1-8.
... 2006 and currently has over 70 members. CSF is one of the leading voices for the commercial spaceflight industry. “The commercial spaceflight industry is developing and innovating at an ever-increasing pace,” said CSF president Eric Stallmer. “With...
04 October 2017
First ever Stratollite launch from Spaceport Tucson
...just limiting its Stratollite to commercial purposes but is also in the market to offer human spaceflight. Currently under development, its Voyager human spaceflight experience is aiming to launch in the near future and once operational it will offer...
29 September 2021
Orbit Fab to launch first geostationary fuel tanker
...Engineer. “This is the first tanker in this orbit, and Spaceflight has come up with a new way to get us there ... is offering rideshare missions to GEO in partnership with Spaceflight. Following separation from the launch vehicle, GeoJump will ...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
..., and we are also monitoring and following up astronaut health and, specifically, immune system issues after long spaceflights. We are also looking at radiation susceptibility in order to understand how cells repair and if they repair at the same...
