... launch of a fully completed vehicle will not occur until the end of 2015, or the beginning of 2016. The challenge from Japan was unexpected. Insurers have already confirmed that the main Japanese launch vehicle, H-IIA, is reliable, while developers...
... McGill University Institute of Air and Space Law in Montreal, Canada. The challenge was to consider a new international initiative to bring an improved system of governance to the now blossoming field of new space activities. Some 120 participants...
... Space Center. When astronauts leave planet Mars, they’ll have to do it independently. Finally, after again facing the challenge of months of interplanetary transit, they must survive another entry, descent and landing, bringing them safely back...
... still has a big role to play. There are several technologies that enable us to use machine learning to address the challenges of SSA. One interesting project funded by Dstl to explore what machine learning can do for SSA is currently underway...
... to put numbers against them, and they are context-dependent. To highlight the challenges, a current research focus is related to the minimum acceptable habitat volume for the crew. Test volumes have to be tested against tasks, across working, eating...
... tag – out of reach for anybody outside the most well-funded space programmes. But the challenge isn’t fitting satellites with more powerful sensors. The real challenge for small satellites is getting the data they collect back to Earth. Operators...