... is to provide those resources and for some 40 years, it has been embedding skilled personnel in every major European space programme. The company’s modus operandi is simple: hire the best people and support them to deliver. As well as providing...
...community as a whole and not just those countries with space programmes. Here, lawyer Jonathan Lim discusses the importance of human rights in space and how the maintenance of space as a peaceful and cooperative domain can be supported by established...
..., inseparably interlinked. “Politics has always been at the heart of humankind’s exploration and utilisation of space, and the space programmes themselves have never been able to transcend terrestrial international politics”. US astronaut, Kevin Ford...
... to future innovations. Akey part of the financial solution for a commercial space programme – beyond funding mechanisms for developing, building and operating the system – is space insurance, which acts in a similar way to other, more familiar types...
... substantiated the leading role of sovereign states in the exploration and exploitation of space. However, economic instability resulted in a sharp reduction in government funding of space programmes and brought to the fore, on the one hand, the need...
The past few years have seen an increase in the number of books on the careers of women involved in various space programmes, and not before time; this is an account of one young woman’s involvement in the Viking ‘Labeled Release’ experiment on ...