March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
The nascent commercial entities focusing their business plans on the commercial potential of space resources utilisation are operating at the bleeding edge of current space-related legal and regulatory frameworks. Governments are in initial stages ...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... vehicle, Soyuz-STA and Soyuz-STB, to take greatest advantage of Soyuz flight experience. While the flight software has been adjusted to new trajectories from Guiana, the main onboard adaptation consisted of the introduction of a safety...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... competencies - aspiring nations like India could also gain significantly in exchange for competencies in launch, medicine, software, etc. After all, India’s Mangalyaan successfully entered Mars orbit on its first attempt while China’s splashed...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... States. Antarctic Dry Valleys from low Earth orbit based on a NASA Landsat 7 photograph and using ArcGIS software. The invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using the heat-resistant enzyme Taq DNA polymerase...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... scientist and a visionary, holding a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering. He founded Socium in 1988 - originally a small software and consulting company, now a large holding with over 8,000 employees in 30 companies worldwide - and the Aerospace...
January 2017
Israeli students inspired by nano-satellite projects
... solution. Every student is assigned one of the main aspects in the design of a satellite subsystem - thermodynamics, communications, software, etc. The teams and their mentors cooperate - just like branches of a start-up company, except the final...
