July 2014
Understanding Earth: GEO and the SDG environmental agenda
...major environmental challenges flexibly and rapidly, thereby advancing global environmental governance. The Rio+20 Conference affirmed the three interdependent and mutually reinforcing pillars of sustainable development – economic development, social...
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
..., operational and economic drivers of reusable launch vehicles’, K.G. Bowcutt, et al., AIAA-2002-3901, 38th Joint Propulsion Conference, Indianapolis, IN, July 2002. 4 ‘The Hypersonic Space and Global Transportation System: A Concept for Routine and...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... CA, August 2014. 8 Yeomans, D., et al “Deflecting a Hazardous Near Earth Object”, presented at the 1st International Planetary Defense Conference, http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/pdc_paper.html, April 2009. 9 Brophy et al, “Synergies of Robotic Asteroid...
March 2015
ESA’s Clean Space Initiative and the role of the LCA tool
.... Yet the picture is changing. World leaders from nearly 200 countries participated in last December’s UN climate change conference in Lima. They discussed the future of the world’s climate, the human contribution, and opportunities to minimise the...
March 2015
Russia and safe space initiatives
... was first proposed by Russia and China back in 2008. An updated Russian-Chinese draft was submitted to the Conference on Disarmament in June this year. The resolution also includes an appeal to all states to adopt a unilateral political commitment...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... of. Failure not to be feared At the very popular Small Sat Conference organised last summer in Logan, UT, USA, Steve Jurvetson (The ...by Dr. Stuart Eves during the last Re-Inventing Space Conference in London. This would make them trackable from the...
