16 September 2015
From CubeSats to drones – playing catch-up with technology in air and space
... Air & Space Conference in National Harbor, MD, much of the talk centered on new technology – and the challenges it poses for U.S. officials. The United States is the birthplace of air travel. The United States airspace, statistically speaking...
29 March 2018
Meeting the Challenge: The Hexagon KH-9 Reconnaissance Satellite
...dry subject, which is largely thanks to the writing style of the author who “wrote the book as a labor of love” (which is never a bad reason). In fact, as if writing a history book wasn’t challenging enough, he had to take unusual measures to protect...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... designs feed forward into human exploration system designs. Finally, there were several lessons learned from the challenge of achieving artificial gravity in mass constrained mission architectures. Rotation rates and radii of rotation must be set...
September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... service. Connecting these populations is a monumental infrastructure challenge, and those that solve the challenge are unlikely to make front-page news. Despite this, the challenge must be addressed. The ability to provide mobile and data coverage...
18 July 2017
Overcoming the challenges of long term space travel
... any of those ideas and systems, we will need to overcome some significant engineering challenges. Increasingly, those looking to begin work in the budding field of space colonisation are taking advantage of online civil engineering degree programmes...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
... ‘high-temperature superconductors’ (HTS), and their ability to operate at such temperatures drastically reduces the challenges and requirements of the cryogenic systems needed to keep them at operational temperatures. Furthermore, HTS have achieved...
