January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
... role in the new space sector, placing partners Astraius and Prestwick Spaceport at the forefront with their innovative air-launch solution. When SpaceX demonstrated the potential of new disruptive large launch vehicles in the early...
17 December 2018
Innovative mission to view the surface of exoplanets using small sats
... on their epic journey by electric propulsion. Despite this innovative solution, it will still take 30 years for the small... been awarded $130,000 from Phase II of NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program to help develop the proposal over...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
...Development Collaborations at Defence SA. Last November it launched the first space strategy of any Australian jurisdiction: ‘The Space Innovation and Growth Strategy (South Australia): Action Plan 2016-2020’, which details the State’s vision through...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
...whether it be powering robotic miners on the Moon or monitoring peat bogs in the Highlands of Scotland, the sector needs to innovate, translate and implement a wide range of technologies, many of which are currently being developed for other purposes...
December 2017
Dressing up for space
...and applications. For instance, could a wearable cooling system be modified to gradually deliver fragrances instead? And could an innovative ESA patent for a 3D antenna be printed directly on textiles with conductive ink? With ideas like this in mind...
June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
... smaller low growth firms focused exclusively on sovereign nations as clients via grants and SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) awards. They are typically either companies focused on commercial elements of space, or they are part of the...
