07 August 2015
NASA pays Roscosmos $490 million for ISS access even as U.S.-Russia relations at a historic low
...immediate gap. Of course SpaceX in particular is aiming to revolutionise the entire launch market – while development of the Russian space programme has hit a number of rough patches, including funding issues for the new Vostok Cosmodrome, and spotty...
17 July 2018
Piercing the Horizon: the story of Visionary NASA Chief Tom Paine
... astronaut biographies but “too few critical works on the principal managers and bureaucrats” responsible for the US space programme. This biography traces Tom Paine’s life from his upbringing as a “Navy Brat” (his father had a “distinguished...
19 September 2019
Annual Global MilSatCom conference and exhibition returns to London
..., SATCOM and Strategic Networks, UK MoD Wing Commander David Black, SKYNET 6 EC Lead, ISS, UK MoD Dr Michael O’Callaghan, Space Programme Manager, Dstl Ms Deanna Ryals, Chief Partnerships Officer, SMC, US Air Force Day two of the conference will...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
...second mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-2, with a lander and rover. As a whole, India has benefited from its space programme, especially in fields such as education, health, disaster warning, coastal management, mapping and agriculture. Thanks to the...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
...). Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight. Boston, MA: MIT Press. 5: IEEE (2011). Integrated Circuits and the Space Programme and Missile Defense. IEEE Engineering and Technology History Wiki. Accessed May 2, 2015 at http://ethw.org...
February 2016
Innovations in human astronautics
... with its help, humanity will be able to take the next step in the development of human space programmes - to begin researching and exploring space beyond low Earth orbit. The Moon, asteroids that are close to Earth, and Mars...
