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...
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...
February 2018
Are we asking the right questions about space debris?
... this information; while advanced modelling techniques can be applied to collision risk calculations, it is all for naught if risk communications and risk awareness are neglected. In C975, over the last 18 months, there have been five recorded...
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
Onboard processors with great amounts of processing capability are allowing the space community to move towards spacecraft capable of executing actual operating systems. This ongoing transformation is similar to what happened for ...
February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
... confirmed in December 2015 and are now applied across our five fields of activity - launchers, science, observation, communications and defence. Our forward-looking strategy is based around this. We have a budget [2017] of €2.3 billion and out...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... spacecraft with its highly efficient thrusters can relocate a satellite to serve a new market. Envisage a communication satellite operator covering a mature telecommunications markets, and there is an emerging region that would be attractive...
