18 December 2019
US Senate suggests Artemis delay after requested funding halved
... includes monies for the completion of SPIDER, a SPace Infrastructure DExterous Robot (SPIDER) that the robotic satellite servicing... was requested – for the establishment of the US’s new Space Force. This soon-to-be sixth military service can now be ...
24 April 2017
Call for international help with space debris
... these objects have tremendous relative velocities, faster than a bullet, and can damage or destroy functioning space infrastructure, like economically vital telecom, weather, navigation, broadcast and climate-monitoring satellites,” said Holger Krag...
16 June 2020
Saber Astronautics selected for the Australian Space Agency Mission Control Centre
... of Australia’s Mission Control Centre. This project received grant funding from the Australian Government’s Space Infrastructure Fund. Branded as the “Responsive Space Operations Centre” (or RSOC for short), Saber will bring next generation...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
...their relative technological immaturity have prevented their adoption in space. Now, however, high-temperature superconductors (HTS)... transfers will form a key part of the in-space infrastructure with the transportation of several tens of tonnes of...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... more reliable the crucial question of management; wherever possible they rejected specialised decisions for space; they built entirely new space infrastructure using all the latest technologies – they did not simply re-design what already existed...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
..., inter alia: (i) changing global economic, political and social conditions and space infrastructure dependence; (ii) identification and assessment of all known space threats; (iii) space opportunities and the need for sustainable and peaceful use...
