June 2015
FanWing: short take-off capability creates a new way to fly
...: professional testing and academic analysis were more and more obviously the only way to breach the walls of the established aerospace world. As Sikorsky designer and former vice president of research Ken Rosen succinctly put...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
On 13 February 2013, Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal of the UK, and I wrote a commentary for the Wall Street Journal entitled: “Playing Cosmic Roulette with our Future.” Our aim was to awaken the world to ...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
... our planet from orbit, we must also recognize that the journey to Mars will be a process of breaking down walls and bringing together the best of what we are capable of as humanity. Today, many have a tendency to think of space...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... spacecraft of Kupalo crater, one of the youngest craters on Ceres. It has bright material exposed on its rim and walls, which could be salts. Its flat floor likely formed from impact melt and debris. Kupalo measures...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... the form of P.L. 114-90. 5 HR 2262-3 (51 USC. § 50914(a)(4)(E)). 6 HR 2262-8, Sec. 112(c). 7 HR 2262-17, Sec. 302. 8 See, e.g., Mike Wall, Asteroid Mining May be a Reality by 2025, Aug. 11, 2015, http://www.space.com/30213-asteroid-mining-planetary...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
... potential of metallic printing technologies. The valve was an interesting case, since it possessed both thick and thin walls, was manufactured starting from a rather large block of stainless steel (with significant amount of waste material and...
