March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
... of geopolitical risks, security, science, knowledge, climate change and a digital Europe. The ESA Digital Agenda for Space [ESA/C(2016)108] responds to the challenges of a digital Europe, notably by providing improved access to space data and ESA...
March 2018
Shifting lines and new horizons in Earth observation markets
... de Selding, Space News, October 2015.http://spacenews.com/china-launches-high-resolution-commercial-imaging-satellite 3 The challenge of future space systems and services in Europe: Industrial competitiveness without a level-playing field. Gil Denis...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... required. But what happens in self-regulated areas such as with NASA? The Challenger Space Shuttle breaks apart shortly after launch on 26 January 1986. The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entering Earth’s atmosphere on 1 February 2003...
June 2018
Striding through space
... to Earth and eventual repair and re-launch. Thereafter the MMU was side-lined, thought too risky in the new safety culture after the Challenger disaster of early 1986. Tasks intended for the MMU were re-designed to be done with manipulator...
