May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
There’s nothing better than a spaceship to bring together the wonder of space, science and art. As we push forward to launching new spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) and on to the Moon and Mars, and as more commercial activities ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
