August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
... state-of-the possible, and help it become the state-of-practice in space operations. Sources of space debris include explosions of rocket bodies. Specifically, there are five key areas in which academia is uniquely positioned to become thought...
October 2016
The dwarf galaxy problem
... the idea that the hole in the ring-cloud could have been formed by a supernova (the death explosion of a massive star). This would have driven gas out of the local area and caused the hole...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
... Satellite Program 5D series, which were all found to be equipped with a battery charger that made batteries susceptible to explosive rupture. Some 46 satellites get ‘stranded’ in space each year Such a design flaw in a large series of mega...
June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
... a glut of supply for launch capacity in the near to medium term. In remote sensing, there has been a huge explosion in company formations. Notable startups include Planet, OmniEarth, Audacy, LeoLabs, Spire, Kepler, OneWeb, Astranis and Analytical...
November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
... the kind of revolutionary leap forward in propulsion that SABRE represents In the space domain, within the current explosion of commercial space launch companies and concepts we see a number of possible applications where SABRE class engines might...
November 2017
Roving the red planet
... Johnson Space Center concluded that the presence of tridymite was evidence of eruptions from volcanoes like Earth’s explosive volcanoes with more silica-rich source magmas. Most of Mars’ volcanoes erupted from more silica-poor...
