06 January 2021
India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years
...’s research and development Inertial System’s Unit (IISU) has been asked to scale up its capabilities to support the space science & exploration missions in the next decade, while its ISTRAC and Master Control Facility (MCF) will upgrade...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... right to the heart of the issue. Do we have the will and the ‘smarts’ to survive and has human space science risen to a level sufficient for us to identify significant cosmic hazards that could threaten the survival of the human...
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 ...
October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
... If so, this would revolutionise spaceflight and lead to a new era of space science and exploration, and to the development of a wide range of new commercial space activities. Such an outcome would require full reusability, an aeroplane-like approach...
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...
