July 2014
Achilles’ heel
.... A prosperous and thriving space sector is critical to socio-economic development and international security; any significant disruption to satellite services would cause lasting damage. Efforts are under way in a number of areas to mitigate some...
December 2014
A door closes
... of Sevastopol Meanwhile, the US decision to ban exports to Russia of defence and dual-use technologies, including satellites, has disrupted many companies’ launch plans. While most of the cooperation in the Cold War was focused on arms control...
October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
...as a result of the nature of the exercise participants, the focus of both of the exercises was on the deflection and disruption mitigation methods, with a lesser emphasis on effective and robust disaster management arrangements. Sadly the latter didn...
October 2015
Growing space businesses in the UK: from incubation centres to public funding
... a space environment. It can often be difficult to gauge the size of the market and to estimate when a technology is truly disruptive. This makes future Returns on Investment and their Net Present Value difficult to estimate. Funding routes Projects...
October 2015
Down to Earth: how to deorbit satellites and save money
... dealt with more effectively Similar challenges not only affect LEO and large constellations of satellites, but disrupt the business-as-usual scenarios, including GEO and MEO satellites. As space gets more crowded, it is important to be able...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
According to ASTM F2792-12 (Standard Terminology for Additive Manufacturing Technologies), Additive Manufacturing (AM) can be described as, ‘a process of joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer’. AM enables the...
