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...
April 2024
Agencia Espacial Española – Spain’s future assurance
... political landscape as well as with legislation regulating the practical aspects of space-related businesses. These are tools that many countries with a space programme are working with. Spain should be no different.” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson...
11 October 2018
ISRO: a personal history
... has been published on the Indian space programme, so this personal history is a welcome addition to the ‘space library’. The book is the story of an “award-winning senior scientist” involved with the programme “from its very inception”. Aravamudan...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
...and satellite imaging and communications tend to be lucrative. Indirectly, countries often hope that investing in their space programmes will inspire their students to study science and technology fields, eventually spurring their economies, and that...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...2.0 was that it protected the role of the state as the main initiator, beneficiary and investor in space programmes and projects. Space research can once again be a leader of innovation only on the basis of a new visionary project. The most promising...
