November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... indeed support both current and future markets. The most lucrative sector of today’s commercial launch market is communications satellites (comsats) that operate in geosynchronous orbit (GEO) but are initially launched into geosynchronous transfer...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
... of Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon, now a heritage monument at CDSCC. Today, as the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, only the Tidbinbilla station remains in operation, playing a crucial role in planetary exploration. While the tracking...
December 2017
Dressing up for space
...are integrated into garments. Common language The space community must find a new language to entice the public... common language that can help the hi-tech research and industrial worlds communicate and collaborate. A ‘design vision’ might be a key to ...
January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
... transformed humans from hunter-gatherers to farmers. A new kind of farming lifestyle greatly increased the ability of human communities to capture energy and enabled a hundredfold increase in human population. Then, some 300 years ago, came the...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... mainstays in the space industry have also ramped up their innovation programmes and acquisition pipelines. The angel community is flourishing with dozens of new angels making their first investments in the sector in 2017. However, notably nearly...
February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
... led to miniaturisation and a massive reduction in cost while the need is increasing for applications such as communications, remote sensing (Earth observation and meteorology), navigation and the next generation of entertainment technologies like...
