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...
June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
.../modes/air/news/doc/2015-03-06- drones/2015-03-06-riga-declaration-drones.pdf 2: Small and medium-sized enterprises 3: http://www.aerospaceamerica.org/Documents/AerospaceAmerica- PDFs-2013/July-August-2013/UASRoundup2013t-AA-Jul-Aug2013.pdf...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
... a million lines of code. Probably 150 person years of effort for the Kepler code base. It’s a large engineering enterprise and cutting edge research. It has been a huge effort on many levels, from the front end of the...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
...-governmental organizations; appropriate state ministries (departments) and space agencies; academic institutions; appropriate commercial enterprises; and concerned individuals; Call upon the McGill University Institute of Air and Space Law to take...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
... designed for a lunar rover, to build robots that could deliver cargo around warehouses. Today, RoboCV is a successful enterprise with Samsung among its clients. At the same time, money poured into private space initiatives in Russia...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... which has one of the longest (2,744 m) commercial runways in the UK and is home to Aerohub, the aerospace-focused Enterprise Zone which extends to 325 hectares and is the largest planning-free development site in the UK. Its location...
