April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
... Vehicle-1 (MEV-1), docked with the Intelsat 901 (IS-901) communications satellite, solidifying its place in history and inaugurating a new era of satellite servicing. Artist’s impression of MEV-1 docking with its target Intelsat spacecraft. Launch...
April 2025
South Korea’s rising rocket star
... will ‘test in anger’ the 2.6 m tall carbon composite fairing with a payload inside. The payloads for this inaugural launch from Alcantara will include satellites from Brazilian customers including the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA...
September 2025
AI cybersecurity - challenges in space
... European Space Agency took an important step in ensuring the continued security of its critical infrastructure with the inauguration of a new Cyber Security Operations Centre (C-SOC) at its European Space Operations Centre in Germany. Policymakers...
September 2026
Ten years of Asgardia - from idea to nation
... areas: artificial gravity, protection from space radiation and human embryology The following day, 25 June, I was inaugurated as the first Head of Nation of Asgardia. Those events were important because they began the process of turning...
30 December 2016
NEOWISE spots two new objects heading our way
... Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission, has helped to discover more than 34,000 asteroids since its first inauguration. If 2016 WF9 turns out to be a comet, it would be the 10th discovered since NEOWISE was brought out of hibernation...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... to space-related activities and what is on the agenda for Trump’s new Administration? In the weeks leading up to todays inauguration President Obama directed all of his Cabinet-level appointees to prepare "exit memos" on progress made during his...
