17 November 2020
Vega fails during launch of European Earth observation satellites
...’s successful return to flight, the Vega launch vehicle lifted off as scheduled at 02:52 CET / 22:52 local time from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The first three stages functioned nominally until the ignition of the AVUM upper...
15 September 2021
Scottish billionaire ends legal challenge to Space Hub Sutherland
... in connection with Space Hub Sutherland. We are mindful that extensive commitments have been made that the spaceport will be an exemplar for environmental sustainability. While we are still concerned that those objectives will be very difficult...
December 2014
From the green economy to green space
... technologies more than 50 years old, there can be no successful strategies, policies, organisational structure, funding or even new spaceports. The current modern launch rocket, for example, is far less effective than a railway engine. Only one...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... feasibly be applied to other targets should the need arise. Planned to be launched by a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, AIM will have a projected launch mass of 800kg – less than a third of Rosetta’s launch mass...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
This article examines some of the issues facing the regulation of individual criminality in outer space, both in respect of tourist activity near to Earth and the more problematic issue of how to regulate crews engaged in long duration, ...
October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
... government made an ambitious proposal to invest AU$101 million into the Asia Pacific Space Centre company to construct a spaceport on Christmas island, with expectation of its use by Russia. However, the company instead appropriated the funds...
