18 October 2021
Netherlands creates international space hotspot
...) - where data from the Galileo satellite system is received - and ESA-SBIC, Europe's first centre for space start-ups. Some 80 percent of the space activities in the Netherlands take place in this area known as South Holland. The...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... is also necessary. The future of humanity in space promises infinite possibilities. More and more countries are ...the figure of a fallen astronaut/ cosmonaut. Humankind’s path to space started with a race to put a human imprint on the “magnificent...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
.... The regulatory burden that the OSA imposes upon (especially but not exclusively) small space start-ups is considerable and has been extensively criticised as disproportionately disadvantaging UK manufacturing. In a consultation document on CubeSats...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... engineer Tony Castilleja-Jr. “This vehicle is very special,” he said. “It has an important mission, because the ride to space starts with the Astrovan II.” After its Washington tour, the Astrovan II was transported to Florida, which will be its ...
28 September 2022
Firms pioneer embryo conception mission for ‘space mice'
...goal to enable safe embryo development in space starts with testing the prototype in space with mouse sperm and oocytes,” said Dr...compared to control samples. Independence-X is a Malaysian space company that has developed a small launch vehicle called...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
...objects, with the biosphere. There is no such ecological niche for the technosphere on Earth - but it is available in space, starting at a distance of 100 km from the planet’s surface, where there are ideal conditions for most technological processes...
