November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... on the human body NASA should set up a step-by-step logical schedule of progressive and realistic goals. Each milestone must be interesting to the public, even while NASA incrementally builds its space-faring capabilities. Realisable, short...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
... later the spacecraft could reactivate full telemetry transmission and we saw that it was perfectly healthy: another milestone achieved on the long journey to the target comet! As predicted, Mars had deflected our trajectory back to Earth...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
... ISS under NASA’s Commercial Re-supply Services 2 (CRS-2) contract. Dream Chaser has successfully completed its first milestone under this contract and is now being prepared for the next round of tests. Its first flight...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
...’s US Commercial Remote Sensing Policy (2003). The area of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster as viewed by SPOT 1. An important milestone was the launch of Ikonos-2, the first commercial EO satellite to collect images with a ground sampling distance below...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... of real time detections with the time lag being of order seconds. These real time detections were a milestone in FRB astronomy and hoped to provide answers to some of the burning questions. What was producing these energetic...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
...concurrent review of the documentation process is a critical component of safety regulation. Documentation of the achievement of regulatory milestones does more than fix responsibility for progress; it is the underlying statement that the development...
