February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
... services for the ISS under NASA’s Commercial Re-supply Services 2 (CRS-2) contract. Dream Chaser has successfully completed its first milestone under this contract and is now being prepared for the next round of tests. Its...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... the company from the concept phase through to maturity, and recently oversaw the signing of a $100 million contract. He holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University, and studied Management of System Engineering at Tel Aviv...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
... evolution builds upon years of research including studies contracted with Space Dev (now Sierra Nevada Corp) and... of Human Moon enterprises and organisations. ILOA successfully contracted and completed two Human Service Mission technical studies with...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
... mission. Low solar (and especially ultraviolet) emissions mean sub-average atmospheric heating. In response, the atmosphere contracts, becoming less dense at a given altitude, reducing drag on orbiting spacecraft. That EGG was able to de-orbit...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
..., named Project Flower, was one of the six oil-for-arms contracts signed in Tehran in 1977. Iran and Israel did not have diplomatic...Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war. The multi-million dollar contract with North Korea was the start of years of military ...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
... of similar materials and processes for future spacecraft. The issue is that, as everything cools down, different materials contract more or less, which can cause stresses to build up. If a spacecraft instrument’s mirror twists a little bit one way...
