... deployed today. By harnessing the collective power of multiple small satellites working in concert, the companies mitigate the risk (and cost) of any singular satellite failure. Small sats still need launchers Serial entrepreneur Richard Branson...
...vital contribution. Meanwhile, technology (and its uses) marches relentlessly on. The cyber-range Examining the potential risks and mitigations by using real assets is not only difficult to do safely but also prohibitively expensive. It simply is not...
... spacecraft operators, manufacturers, space agencies, regulators, insurers, financiers and consultants, with a special emphasis on managing space risk and space insurance. This is the third conference in the bi-annual series. The 2017 event was run...
... businesses will increasingly call for legal certainty when it comes to investing in space, particularly due to the high risk, high cost nature of the industry. Louise Mansion explains some of the key issues. Apatent provides an inventor...
...more efficient balance, an area in which LCROSS was a pathfinder: Performance. The first step in containing cost and risk is to eliminate the pursuit of maximum performance, which is expensive. LCROSS was not a Faster, Better, Cheaper mission; it was...
...health and safety of those taking part in spaceflight activities and to have taken all reasonable steps to reduce risks to the health, safety and property of other persons to ‘as low as reasonably practicable’ (ALARP). Thus, being able to demonstrate...