October 2023
Slovenia’s footprint in space
... company but with an internationally recognised brand that provides innovative space solutions and with the right mindset to address the challenges of the New Space Age. SkyLabs’ NANOsky avionics platform comprises highly miniaturised avionics with...
April 2024
Commercial launch development in Spain
... from 12 m long and 0.7 m in diameter to 35.7 m long and 2 m in diameter. Size is one of the challenges. One thing that we demonstrated on MIURA 1 was the staging mechanism. It’s a very tricky system, because - for MIURA 5 - we need to separate...
October 2024
Space exploration remains a crucial endeavour for humanity
... popular culture too, where movies such as Apollo 13 and songs like David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ encapsulate the challenges and triumphs of astronauts. These works not only entertain but also deepen...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... 1975 NASA Ames/Stanford University Summer Study by Donald Davis. In his painting, the artist wanted to emphasise the challenge of sustaining a closed ecosystem in space. The urge to explore outer space, to discover, to colonise and ensure humanity...
October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
... and six peripheral windows that offer such amazing views of the Earth. The Challenge Star quilt pattern reflects the ‘journey’ of Karen Nyberg, and others, reaching for the stars in their own ways throughout their whole lives and...
November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
..., using ground-based telescopes to detect the tiny wobbles a planet induces in its host star’s motion. The challenge here is filtering out the ‘noise’ from the star itself, but progress is being made. The second approach takes us into space, where...
