December 2018
Prosperity in the stars
...world The next 12 months will see a new raft of important activities including details of the 25-year space programme to be unveiled at Asgardia’s first Space Science and Investment Congress to be held in June 2019. The Congress will host six keynote...
November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
... lobbying by Mexican academics who recognised that Mexico needed an organisation responsible for conducting a national space programme The Mexican space agency (AEM - Agencia Espacial Mexicana) came into being after lobbying by Mexican academics who...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
...The VLS-1 was one of the main objectives of the Brazilian space programme. Another important project was the development of a launch site, ... VLS accident was a major setback to Brazil’s space programme. The rocket exploded on its launch pad, killing...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
... focus of the Accords is transparency. The OST does provide a few requirements here, but too many civil space programmes around the world are opaque and secretive about their activities. Building on longstanding NASA, European, Japanese...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
.... In 2002, he started working as a development programme manager, in particular in space applications. In 2007, he became space department manager in charge of space programmes. Since 2018, he has been space business development manager in charge...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... and income will provide the rest. The size and complexity of the United States major space programmes - the International Space Station, Space Launch System and Orion capsule - might have benefited from a better sense of scale and...