13 January 2021
Portugal envision building a spaceport on the Azores islands
..., Portugal are keen to step-up efforts and raise the ambition of developing and promoting the space infrastructures of the future, said its space agency in a report. Key to this will be “to exploit the natural alliances with Portuguese-speaking...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
..., Texas is focused on resolving the human health and performance challenges, building critical deep space infrastructure and enabling the capabilities to explore multiple destinations through a combination of commercial and international partnerships...
October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
...’ satellite data, a reliance on China for bush-fire tracking, and Japan for weather data, and by Australia’s space infrastructure being outsourced to foreign companies (Australia’s National Broadband Network and Optus satellites have been built and...
April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
...flown on NorSat-TD, which will demonstrate laser communication in space. About the author Jon Harr, Director of Enterprise Development and National Space Infrastructure at the Norwegian Space Agency, leads efforts to develop and maintain a profitable...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... and importance is bound to increase, thereby opening up entirely new fields for space infrastructure and the services it can provide. At the same time, new space programmes are continuously being conceived, prepared and launched, making best use...
November 2018
Pole star rising
... (mass of 10-150 kg). The PSS assumes also that satellite data will be acquired both from the European space infrastructure (e.g. Galileo and Copernicus) and from national resources. One such resource should be a national Earth observation system...
