November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
... Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) was introduced by the US Air Force as a tool for military operations. The system used around 30... being recommended as a part of a Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) for the US and potentially ...
November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
... in Neuroscience, and a Master’s of Science in Space Studies from the American Public University. He was a Captain in the US Air Force, serving first as a Minuteman II ICBM Deputy Commander at Malmstrom AFB in Montana, and also with the US Strategic...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... development and introduced a controlling, detail-oriented culture to NASA. The human space programme started with two Air Force-contributed large intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) rockets, Atlas and Titan – used on the Mercury and Gemini...
18 January 2021
Virgin Orbit rocket reaches orbit for first time
...also marks a historical first: no other orbital class, air-launched, liquid-fuelled rocket had successfully reached space before... customers ranging from the US Space Force and the UK’s Royal Air Force to commercial customers like Swarm Technologies, ...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... to conquer a great part of the commercial market, SpaceX also looks for profits in the government segment. The US Air Force plans to certify Falcon 9 in 2015, so that it can use the rocket to launch satellites in the interests of national security...
March 2016
Time for European visionary goals
...leaps in evolutionary terms. In less than 100 years air travel has become routine and the car has provide ...concentrated on a backlog of failures. Politicians across Europe are forcing each other into populist measures to please themselves and the ...
