September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
... latest research into the debris threat and on new technologies aimed at mitigating debris creation and reducing the ...rate of one in 500 satellites per year. Implications for new constellations Taking our previous result of a sun-synchronous orbit,...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
...and is of paramount importance to our species. Rather than new technologies, products, weapons or national strategy, it turned out ... people by Space News. Winner of the 2015 World Technology Award, he Founded Deep Space Industries, a space resources...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... and the value it has in not only creating new knowledge, but new technologies that benefit all of us every day. The empty... role in that endeavour. We’ve been able to build many new exhibits and add lots of multimedia over time. We’re now even ...
April 2019
On-board propulsion set to drive the smallsat revolution
...received a US$2.8 million European Union Horizon 2020 grant in June 2018, ThrustMe is planning to finalise testing of its new technology and bring the system to market within a year. In the meantime, it also has a conventional plasma thruster product...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
... are seeing this and likely beginning to retool their cyber capabilities to leverage this new economy which, like all new technology, is woefully undefended. Features first, security second. A Tiantong-1 Mobile Communications Satellite was placed...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... Didymos A body during the final hour of the mission. The DART spacecraft will also demonstrate other new technologies, including NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial (NEXT-C) ion engine, developed by NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland...
