May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
...public interest compared to some of the other Indian space science missions. Only three of the 104 satellites launched...the fact that on 6 July 2016, the US Committee on Science, Space and Technology wrote a letter to former American secretary of state...
August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
... within the next decade. The search for exoplanets is one of the most exciting space science endeavours and though NASA’s James Webb telescope will cost about US$9 billion it may be too small to yield ...
February 2020
Surviving bacteria in space
... only increase for future missions to the Moon and Mars. This article, based on a presentation at the Asgardia Space Science & Investment Congress (ASIC) in Darmstadt, Germany, in October, explains some of the issues and describes the state of play...
January 2021
Asgardia’s project for a new module to expand Space Station
... Station which, in November 2020, marked two decades of continuous occupation. During the first Asgardia Space Science & Investment Conference, held in Germany in October 2019, a project to add a new commercially procured docking module to the ISS...
March 2021
Campuses, clusters and a leading force in UK space
...the world’s largest fully steerable meteorological radar and carries out research in atmospheric science, radio communications, astronomy, space science and technology. In Cheshire sits STFC’s Daresbury Laboratory, recently awarded funding to support...
November 2025
Vantage Vigil - Europe’s first operational space weather mission nears approval
...exploit its L5 orbit. The UK’s contribution includes two key instruments: a plasma analyser built by the Mullard Space Science Laboratory and a magnetometer developed at Imperial College London. Together, they will characterise the speed, density and...
