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...
November 2016
Turning the Solar System into our backyard
... Food Programme, Airbus Defence and Space, Local Motors and Made in Space to submit industrial and sustainability challenges that 50 top international and interdisciplinary aspiring entrepreneurs would tackle over the course of 24 hours during the...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
... ever-present highly abrasive dust. Reflected sunlight illuminates a Norwegian village. Reflecting sunlight One of the first challenges is power. Since the ice exists in permanent shadow, solar power is not readily available. However, it happens that...
January 2020
Discipline - a formula for success in the Earth observation market EO sector
...burgeoning flood of new Earth observation (EO) data now becoming available from NewSpace assets such as CubeSats. The challenges in obtaining, processing and utilising EO data are many, but expertise to overcome and succeed is available at every step...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
... alterations of the human condition come with ethical questions, but each comes also with a host of technological challenges. Hibernation has been debated for decades; however, it is still unclear if a human body can be kept in hibernation for...
April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... for licensing of a spaceport, launch activities and supporting range services (tracking, telemetry and flight termination). A challenge for the space industry is not only to develop a spaceport that meets all geographical, functional and operational...
