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...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... them into terrestrial systems poses a number of challenges, linked to the characteristics of space systems and the space sector more widely, and also the way space programmes are traditionally perceived and managed. The sector has faced these...
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...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... pursued defence acquisition reform for decades. Despite enacting numerous reforms, major defence acquisition programmes - particularly space programmes - generally continue to deliver behind schedule and over budget. The problem is compounded by the...
May 2017
Could Brexit blow a hole in UK’s space ambitions?
... be able to do by itself. Nevertheless, there have been calls from some within the UK for a completely ‘home-grown’ space programme, with a suggestion that the returns could be much greater than are currently obtained through participation in ESA...
