18 March 2020
Failure of China's Long March 7A launch could impact major missions
... Island, China’s southernmost launch site. The rocket was expected to place a classified satellite named XJY 6 or ‘new technology verification satellite-6” into an elliptical, geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) but was unable to deliver the secret...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... spaceships to the harsh radioactive environment of deep space. One of the ways that NASA is testing a number of the new technologies and capabilities that will directly enable future missions to Mars is through the proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... this trend and are developing innovative business models to capitalise on it. This new technology and market trend is called “NewSpace”; it describes the new generation of space development, notably commercial, which are disrupting the dynamic...
March 2015
Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond
... parameters of the comet. For Russia, launching Western spacecraft does not help develop new technology The Vega project therefore took another fundamentally new step in USSR’s space research: it became open and available to the wider scientific...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
.... The term “Zero to One” is shorthand for new technology developments that have broad economic prospects and impact. Serious ...: “In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.” This is a strong echo of the...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
...deep space, we need to do more than develop new technology. Humans must come to terms with the idea ...Mars 2020 rover, which will carry an experiment to investigate the technology needed to extract oxygen from the carbon dioxide rich atmosphere of Mars...
