December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... of the spacecraft’s 440 Newton liquid apogee motor had started, the team clapped and cheered – an important milestone had been reached. A satisfactory test of the engine had been carried out 48 hours earlier, giving the...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... safe orbits, or even to de-orbit, using high powered lasers. The participants have already individually achieved key milestones towards this goal, but a joint approach offers the best prospect of early success. The CRC is funded...
June 2015
The Aeromobil 3.0 flying car spreads its wings
... the company with the objective of commercialising the project. The company and the project reached a key milestone during the summer of 2013, when they finished and successfully demonstrated the functionality of the pre-prototype...
March 2016
Space for art
... we have achieved our vision of human exploration of Mars and takes a nostalgic look back at the great imagined milestones of Mars exploration that will someday be celebrated as ‘historic sites’. The discovery of Enceladus’ icy jets and their...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... operator O3b Networks, with a fourth Soyuz launch planned from CSG in early 2018. Moreover, the recent milestone contract that Arianespace signed with the American company OneWeb that projects the deployment of a constellation of nearly...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... year. These near-Earth asteroids represent a resource base that can transform humanity’s future. The legislative milestone passed in the United States was just the beginning. In February, the Government of Luxembourg announced its intent...
