May 2024
Could ICAO be a NewSpace regulator?
... which can be considered for differentiating airspace from outer space. The first is the height beyond which a jet aircraft is unable to fly as the air is too thin; the second is where gravity causes a space object to re-enter...
April 2025
Spacecraft anomalies and insurance losses
... first satellite mission launched from the UK failed due to a dislodged fuel filter. Virgin Orbit’s modified jumbo jet, ‘Cosmic Girl’ took off from Newquay, Cornwall on 9 January 2023, releasing the LauncherOne rocket over the...
April 2025
Maximising returns to Earth - the infinite potential of space
... has resulted in the detriment of the environment, and space is no different.” Jah recounted his professional experiences at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the European Space Agency and the US Air Force Research Laboratory on Maui, where he found...
April 2025
Catapult to orbit - will David finally defeat Goliath?
.... Using its current prototype system, the company has reached altitudes similar to those already achieved by commercial jet airliners. However, to develop a functional satellite launcher it will need a much larger centrifuge (three times the current...
01 April 2015
Media Spun Up on NASA Cutting-edge Mars Landing Technology
...-space from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, in June. Media were on hand at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, on March 31 to witness one of the final tests that a LDSD test vehicle will...
14 August 2015
Fun in the sun with Rosetta: comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at perihelion
... closest approach to the sun have just been published by the European Space Agency. Amazing things – including jets and other outburst events – happen to comets at perihelion (the point in their orbit at which they are closest...
