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...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... as one of humanity’s strongest drivers. “To be risk adverse is not the right thing for the future,” he states. “So we need disruptive ideas and we have to allow them.” During his tenure as ESA DG Woerner expects to witness significant break-throughs...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... with equivalent scientific results). These ambitious projects raise such important questions such as whether technological disruptions for launchers will be needed or not. Will, as some of Arianespace’s competitors contend, reusable rockets play...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... destroy coastal settlements, while those that fall on land may easily destroy a large city or an entire country, disrupt telecommunications, energy and other systems, destroy nuclear facilities, chemical plants and toxic waste depositories, etc...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
... of innovation to wider sectors of industry and society. Fresh emphasis is being placed on the investigation of potentially disruptive and game-changing concepts, enhancing open innovation mechanisms to bring in non-space and academic partners, and...
