December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... development now, would then travel to the redirected asteroid in the 2020s. Advancing spacecraft technologies ARM will test a number of new space technologies to extend human spaceflight beyond LEO. One of these is the use of advanced solar electric...
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
... P. Hollingsworth, “Small Satellite Launch to LEO: A Review of Current and Future Launch Systems,” 29th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (conference paper), Nagoya-Aichi, Japan, 2013. 4“Northstar- The Versatile, Green and Safe...
December 2017
Dressing up for space
... extreme environments to facilitate human missions in microgravity, and create new opportunities and spin-offs for space technology in the private sector. She is the Principal Investigator of the VEST (Marco Polo mission) and GOAL (Eneide ...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... Starting from first principles, as it were, there are two primary legal sources that provide an impulse to using space technologies to alleviate the suffering of at-risk communities, such as those of migrants and refugees. One such source stems from...
March 2019
The changing economics of space
... aging spacecraft are often functioning well, and can still provide effective communications services. In the past, space technologies were deliberately kept behind the leading edge, since they needed to be well-proven, robust and low...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
... - which serves US government, commercial and international customers worldwide - provides everything from entire spacecraft to specific space technologies and individual parts and components. The company has been involved in more than 450 successful...
