September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
...be fair to say that in recent years this has been disrupted by SpaceX, with its Falcon 9 launch vehicle designed with reusable...this market also looks like being next in line for disruption in terms of more accurate orbital delivery and more responsive...
March 2021
Eyes on the prize
... the UK cannot focus on incremental gains. Disruptive opportunities are arising, including micro-launchers, miniaturisation...the only nation looking to grow our space sector. The disruption of private sector players in the US and the opportunities...
April 2021
Making space part of the everyday European agenda
... in constellations, commercialisation, artificial intelligence (AI) and disruptive innovation - all things we needed to be proactively... The laboratory brought together what we called the ‘disruptive innovation community’, many of them working in AI,...
May 2021
Forecasting space-weather effects on Earth
...solar flares can produce strong X-rays that may disrupt radio communication through enhanced ionisation of the upper ...-circuit path over the grounded electric power lines and cause disruptions and degradation in power transmission. On 9 March 1989,...
May 2022
Multinational training for interplanetary spaceflight crews
... due to low levels of group interaction and cooperation. These risks may result in reduced performance efficiency, disruption of sustainable collective safety behaviour in the crew, etc. Among the many interplanetary flight factors that form...
April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
... these constraints: “We’ve been very careful about ensuring minimal disruption. We don’t need to shut down the island’s ... close airspace before launches. That minimises disruption to transatlantic flights, which typically already route ...
