August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
... matter and NASA was forced to start an official investigation The astronaut’s joking remark got out on the internet and the obviously unbalanced UFO fans raised up a storm. Someone named Donald Ratch sent an official letter...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... markets, like Earth observation, and also creating completely new markets like asteroid mining and global Internet access. While there are still differences between the goals of commercial and government space missions, there...
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
... in the market to date and/or in the near future. The data is based on publically available information in several papers, internet research, and releasable data made available through personal contact with the LV providers. Additionally, the author...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
... overall communication system, together with ground networks and ubiquitous smart devices, from smartphones to the emerging ‘internet of things’. In the decade ahead, a new generation of launchers will enter service, reducing the cost of access...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... and comments The talk triggered a wave of comment and criticism. Doug Messier and John Logsdon on the internet blog Parabolic Arc saw the SpaceX Mars ships reviving Wernher von Braun’s vision of gigantism from...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
...) their funds and fortunes to making the dream happen. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. Among his many internet pursuits he is also the founder of Blue Origin, a private spaceflight company that hopes to take tourists into space...
