July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
... of all, routine and affordable space transportation might be enabled, leading to a proliferation of space commerce and private space enterprise. 1 ‘Europe And Japan Forge New Hypersonic Links’, Guy Norris, in Aviation Week & Space Technology, Nov...
July 2014
Defending NATO and its allies from high-altitude threats
... missiles. Effective missile defences decrease the value of ballistic missiles and make the pursuit of this technological enterprise more costly. The role of soft power Ballistic missile defence is only one of the tools that the...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... applying. SERC is a not-for-profit entity which is controlled by an independent board and managed as a commercial enterprise. SERC-developed technology is licensed on the open market, with commercial advantages for access provided to participants...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... for smaller satellites. Virgin Galactic suffered a setback with the 31 October 2014 in-flight loss of the VSS Enterprise, the first of five commercial suborbital “SpaceShip2” spacecraft planned by Virgin Galactic. However, the company continues...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
...present day. And opportunities for forward-thinking space software developers – whether an agile, innovative start-up or an established enterprise – to get new systems and techniques into orbit are extremely limited. That’s where ESA’s new Operations...
June 2015
FanWing: short take-off capability creates a new way to fly
...’s top research organisations.” From a small ‘funny looking’ model taking off in the middle of nowhere to an EU-funded team enterprise, Clarke’s Law may yet still apply, but there is no doubt that the concept has taken a major...
