May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... fund offering strategic capital to breakthrough solutions across the Technology of Flight and sustainability. TFO invests in game changing technologies in the air and space ecosystem including satellites, autonomy, drones, cyber security, AI data...
June 2022
Pandemic parallels
... uncertainty after their ship became trapped in pack ice in 1915. A strict routine and diversions such as football games, sprightly tunes from a banjo and a vision of success all helped to keep morale high. A team of researchers recently...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... to ‘cash out’ of their investments after a few years, not realising (or perhaps not caring) that space is a long game. These may be good strategies for finding lucrative high-tech start-ups on the ground, but they...
October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... can travel more than 800 km a day, so geolocating a naval air group in the middle of the ocean is a difficult game of hide and seek. Jianbing 8 can only detect ships if they emit electromagnetic energy (radar, communication). Jianbing...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
... place to take root. After all, when the Sun explodes in five and a half billion years, the game will be over for anything that eats, breathes or excretes. And sure, a dying Sun will do away with...
April 2024
Unlocking the NewSpace economy through space-based solar power
Space-based solar power is attracting a significant amount of interest and excitement for the role it can play in the world’s transition to sustainable energy sources. The impact that this technology will have for the NewSpace economy cannot be ...
