October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... feasibly be applied to other targets should the need arise. Planned to be launched by a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, AIM will have a projected launch mass of 800kg – less than a third of Rosetta’s launch mass...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
This article examines some of the issues facing the regulation of individual criminality in outer space, both in respect of tourist activity near to Earth and the more problematic issue of how to regulate crews engaged in long duration, ...
October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
... government made an ambitious proposal to invest AU$101 million into the Asia Pacific Space Centre company to construct a spaceport on Christmas island, with expectation of its use by Russia. However, the company instead appropriated the funds...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... Development and Operations programme, which is converting the facilities at Kennedy Space Center into a next-generation spaceport capable of supporting launches of multiple types of vehicles. These capabilities are part of a larger NASA strategy...
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
... innovators with affordable and reliable launch services. Its first customer-funded launch took place from Spaceport Camden in Georgia, USA, in August 2017. Today’s onboard software The classical onboard software is currently seen as an almost...
November 2018
Purpose, promise and power – video from space
... satellite in orbit after the successful launch of VividX2 (also known as Carbonite-2) on 12 January 2018 from the Indian spaceport in Sriharikota. The first demonstrator data sets have been available since late March and a public release...
