September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... may entail Business leaders and companies endeavour to innovate new technology in areas that were once relegated ... shares. The monarchial patron lost its monopoly on financing innovation as soon as the joint stock company allowed wealthy businessmen...
February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
... Although insurance is one of the oldest and most effective methods of risk management, it is also known as not particularly innovative. The insurance industry’s aversion to risk and need for stability has caused some insurers to withdraw temporarily...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... activities that tend to be risk averse, based primarily on public financing, and generating competence-enhancing, sustaining innovations. NewSpace, on the other hand, pursues common, non-governmental market goals bounded primarily by market forces...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... were the tangible results of a vision for an innovative integrated system of garments to be used during human ...Benedetto Quaquaro created the Master’s Degree in Product Design for Innovation (Space4Inspiration), the first course of its type in the ...
16 May 2016
NASA Invests in the Future of Technological Development
... photonic propulsion, or any one of the other amazing Phase II studies NIAC is funding, I'm thrilled to welcome these innovations and their innovators back to the program. Hopefully, they will all go on to do what NIAC does best - change the possible...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
...of tasking a sensor network to collect information in order to answer a specific question. Finally, scientific discovery and operational innovation has been inhibited by the lack of a common framework that employs state-of-the-art in data science and...