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...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... launches are usually provided by the Centre for Operation of Ground- Based Space Infrastructure (usually abbreviated as TsENKI), which is owned by Russia’s Space Agency, Roscosmos, and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces, together with developers...
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...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
...are concerns about the increased complexity of refuelling, compared with the dock-and-thrust approach. US company Space Infrastructure Services (SIS) is taking the refuelling approach, aided by highly sophisticated robotic arms, with services planned...
November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
... has responsibility for developing the workforce that will design, construct and operate Mexican space infrastructure according to the Mexican Space Agency’s vision. Mr Duarte has a long career in top management and engineering positions in both the...
08 January 2023
Spaceflight
... the gamut of spaceflight - from “dreams and military imperatives” and the “Cold War space race”, via science, exploration and the space infrastructure, to “Astroculture” and human spaceflight - in six pithy chapters. The account is predominantly...
