January 2023
Producing food in space
... on exploited animals, fertilisers dependent on fossil fuels and farmland that could be reforested. Planning for the hostile environment of space does away with all of that immediately and allows us to design more resilient food systems for Spaceship...
27 November 2017
ASTROSCALE and SSTL join forces to get rid of space debris
... the potential to provide a cost-effective approach for ensuring the long-term sustainability of the space environment for all.” The vast majority of space debris is found in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) at an altitude of 800 - 2000 kilometres above Earth...
14 June 2021
G7 nations commit to the safe and sustainable use of space
...Only through such leadership, with all nations working together, will we preserve the space environment for future generations.” Mert Evirgen, of Northern Space Security, also advocates the need for legally binding guidelines in his article Collision...
18 January 2022
First of 40 planned launches for China
...officials said Shiyan 13 will be used for space environment data collection and technology tests but did not ...currently three astronauts on China’s Shenzhou 13 spacecraft on the Tianhe space station. They were launched in October and, if the planned ...
24 June 2022
UK to lead review of space legislation and financial support for debris removal
... and associated regulations, with a specific focus on orbital constellations which are rapidly changing space environment. It also places more emphasis on the UK space system licensing process and associated third party liability insurance that will...
29 March 2018
Materials and Processes for Spacecraft and High Reliability Applications
...post-flight materials’. As far as illustrations are concerned, engineering problems related to spacecraft hardware in the space environment are “highlighted by over 500 illustrations including micrographs and fractographs”. The big surprise, for such...
