June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
..., and this is still the case in many industrial contexts today. NASA’s Mercury programme, which was the United States’ first man-in-space programme, had been designed for fully automatic control – a controversial engineering decision, which reduced...
February 2018
Journey of inspiration
... loved the work they were doing, believed in the amazing Space Shuttle and the value of our space programme, and were passionate about the care of these space vehicles and their crews. These were a people and place...
30 May 2018
China opens up its space station to the world
... Chinese satellite in 1970, China has become one of the major space faring nations. Its state of the art space programme, including the well-established Manned Space Programme, is one of the most holistic and technologically advanced in the world...
04 October 2018
Space cluster launch takes UK beyond the final frontier
... in the 1990s. The airfield has been largely unused for the last 30 years after investment in the UK space programme dried up but, under the management of PATRIZIA, rocket propulsion testing is back on the agenda along with wider...
June 2014
Space technology transfer portals and the chance progress of innovation
... to make every possible use of the opportunities it provides. The knowledge that has been generated from the space programme has already found its way into a variety of everyday items, often in subtle and non-obvious ways...
December 2014
From the green economy to green space
... Earth. The key methods are: standardisation and classification of eco-friendliness of equipment, technologies, projects and space programmes in four classes (the black, brown, white, green model described above). The main approaches are: i) systemic...
