September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... these regions to ‘leap frog’ over legacy communications infrastructure issues that might slow down adoption of new technologies. The Internet of Things is a great example of this. It is currently only available to developed markets because they have...
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
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...
November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
... that for all nations, but particularly for the Latin American countries, access to space is a door to progress, new technologies and inspirational science for a region where the young population is a vast majority. “But to make space accessible...
