March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... to learn, there are four United States-based companies whose business plans involve...other volatiles in space can also be valuable. The Planetary Resources website states, ‘In orbit, spacecraft propellant is a multi-billion dollar industry with...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
...funding to develop technological capabilities to meet international standards. However, the 1990 agreement between the United States (US) and Japan for the procurement of commercial satellites, which prohibits Japanese industry to exclude competition...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... all, at the push of a button, through an infrastructure similar to the 19th century transcontinental railroads in the United States? Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s statement, from a letter in 1911 [1], still holds: “a planet is the cradle of humanity, but...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
...organizational hierarchy. How did we get here? In the United States, the Government established NASA in 1958 as a civilian agency... journey. Habitation analogues include: Habitat Demonstration Unit (HDU), which became Human Exploration Research Analog...
February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
...after the 2008 crash of the housing market and the subsequent recession, the Federal Reserve of the United States reacted by lowering interest rates to historical minima in order to prevent economic deceleration. This situation created excess venture...
November 2017
Geospatial maritime solutions
What is Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) and the Automatic Identification System (AIS)? United States’ doctrine defines maritime domain as all areas and things of, on, under, relating to, adjacent to, or bordering on a sea, ocean, or other ...
