31 July 2019
Satellite-Based Earth Observation: Trends and Challenges for Economy and Society
... Königsberger, Hannnes Mayer and Anita Rinner reflects to a large extent the proceedings of a 2017 symposium on Trends and Challenges of Satellite Based Earth Observation for Economy and Society, held at the Styrian Economic Chamber in Graz, Austria...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
... solution for wide-spread low-latency (less than 50 milliseconds) broadband (10 terabytes per second) excess will challenge the classical space-based and ground-based communication market. The proposed concepts differ in their maturity...
29 March 2018
Meeting the Challenge: The Hexagon KH-9 Reconnaissance Satellite
...who “wrote the book as a labor of love” (which is never a bad reason). In fact, as if writing a history book wasn’t challenging enough, he had to take unusual measures to protect sensitive information before it had been cleared by the CIA. He reveals...
25 September 2020
The Consequential Frontier - Challenging the Privatization of Space
... sources spiced up by a few interviews. There is little significant analysis and, despite the subtitle, little real ‘challenge’ of NewSpace entrepreneurs. As a result, space professionals are unlikely to read anything new in this book or discover any...
October 2020
Pandemic impacts - the state of the ground segment
...invested in the industry over the past decade. As a result, raising capital for space activities will be more challenging for the foreseeable future, especially for capital-intensive endeavours. Moreover, if pre-revenue or capital-intensive companies...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... - radiation, gravity, circadian dysrhythmias, life-support systems, mental health, and public health. Radiation Radiation is a major challenge for human space travel. Away from Earth’s protective magnetic field, two key types of radiation are...