September 2024
Liberating access to space
...top-tier talent to develop and operate these launch services further adds to the challenge. Another critical challenge is navigating the regulatory and policy landscape. The UK, for example, must align its national policies with complex international...
September 2025
AI cybersecurity - challenges in space
... that input data is genuine and unaltered is non-negotiable. The challenge lies in implementing these verification measures efficiently within the resource constraints of space-based platforms, most notably bandwidth and processing power. Security...
12 July 2019
NASA reassigns top leaders in Moon 2024 programme
... administrator on an acting basis. “As you know, NASA has been given a bold challenge to put the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024, with a focus on the ultimate goal of sending humans to Mars,” Bridenstine wrote. “In an effort to meet...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... scope and framework of the S&E initiative. At this stage, the challenges related to the space systems are experienced less in the technology road-mapping branch of the initiative and more on the services branch. On the latter, investment and launch...
March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
... benefits of on-orbit servicing are too important to ignore and despite the challenges, a solution can be found. Servicing has the potential to repair malfunctioning satellites, clear retired satellites and debris from geosynchronous orbit, and may...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
...to process and filter alerts produced by time-domain surveys. Whether fundamental or use-inspired, active research into the challenges sketched in this article is imperative not only to locating satellites and spacecraft debris but also to predicting...
