25 October 2017
Firm announces plan to launch rockets from Scotland
... in Ukraine, unveiled its plans for entering the small satellite launch market during the Reinventing Space conference taking place in Glasgow, Scotland, this week. Edinburgh-based Skyrora, which is currently developing an orbital launch vehicle...
31 May 2016
'The ITU and its Impact on Space Activities' at GLIS 2016
... Telecommunication Union on Space Activities. Its main focus will be on the results of the 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference which adopted numerous decisions significant for activities in outer space. The panel discussing these results will...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... in 2011 by Jeff Greason, then president of XCOR Aerospace. In his own inspirational address to the International Space Development Conference, Greason said: “It is actually the national policy of the United States that we should settle space. But...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
There is an old Indian fable about six blind men describing an elephant, each coming to a different conclusion as to what it is they are describing. And thus it is today as world leaders, legislators, policymakers and academics try to understand ...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... Madeleine Albright acknowledged, “To put it mildly, the world is a mess.” Shortly before, at the 2nd Manfred Lachs Conference on Global Space Governance at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, Prof Barry Kellman had observed, “Space is a mess...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
Adelaide will host the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) this September - the biggest conference in the global space community’s annual calendar [1]. Australia, and particularly the state of South Australia, has a long ...
