January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... require several decades of development. Therefore, the painstaking growth of a space economy with high levels of traffic...applaud his speech, and urge everyone interested in the future growth and prosperity of humankind to support his broad vision, ...
May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
... horticultural equipment used many of these experiments failed. The best result of that period was the successful growth of arabidopsis (a member of the mustard family) seeds on the Saylut-7 orbital station in a Phiton-3 apparatus in 1982. But many...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
... by Europe and the world; foster a globally competitive European space sector by supporting research, innovation, entrepreneurship for growth and jobs, seizing larger shares of global markets; and ensure European autonomy in accessing and using space...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
... indeed multiple spaceports). The SIA is intended to create the necessary legal framework for the expansion and growth of the UK space industry. In an industry that is subject to such rapid change and accelerated development, once the UK Government...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
... built a scientific payload that controlled air and liquid systems, to precise levels, allowing scientists to study plant growth in a microgravity environment. This system, the Biomass Production System (BPS), deployed onboard the Space Shuttle and...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... are likely to see tens of thousands of new satellites launched by the end of the decade. Clearly, these rates of growth cannot be sustained indefinitely and, at some point, we will start to run up against the limitations of orbital carrying capacity...
