March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... by Richard Branson at Virgin and Elon Musk of SpaceX that they are funding hundreds of satellites, to extend the Internet backbone to low Earth orbit and other commercial projects. The response? Google’s investment of a billion dollars into...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
...). Investors and entrepreneurs alike are once again taking on development projects focussed on global satellite internet based on the next generation of technology. Standardised technology is key A high level of standardisation and unification...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... in huge constellations of small satellites (4,000 satellites for Space X and 650 for Virgin Galactic9) to broadcast the Internet to the world. This re-ignites the debate around debris and the exploitation of space. Indeed, although space...
June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
... last few decades, the amount of ideas and discussions has grown much faster due to the emergence of Internet resources. Because of this, we now have the task of figuring out methods for both working with the...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
... conducting the market research that would provide confidence about the revenues. At this time, reward-based internet crowdfunding was beginning to hit its stride and space projects such as Planetary Resources’ Arkyd showed that...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-01-22/the-newspace- race-one-man-s-mission-to-build-a-galactic-internet-i58i2dp6 for an example of the way in which space activities are developing in unpredictable directions. 3: See Weeden, B. (2011...
