October 2015
Green cosmonautics: an ideal to strive for
.... - P. 60-65. 2: V.M. Petrov: The laws of development of technical systems // Methodology and methods of technical creativity. Theses of the reports and messages to the scientific and applied conference on 30 June - 2 July 1984 - Novosibirsk, 1984...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
..., however, be obtained from a review of the success rates observed in the recent past. ESA experts regularly report on the global achievements in post mission disposal. This information is gathered from the automated analysis of surveillance data...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... two, could it increase its output by a similar factor, or decrease the time needed to get ‘results’ (treaties, guidelines, reports on best practices, etc.)? Probably not, as time between meetings is used by delegations to confer with their Capitals...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
... last 10 years (2007-2016). When spacecraft fail, the reason is not always fully known or disclosed, so these reported numbers may be conservative. If we estimate that the true rate for serious debris strike-related anomalies is about...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... cost and, in parallel, will be a real enabler for investment It is easy to assume, particularly with all the press reports, that all of this exciting stuff has already happened, and that the world has already changed...
February 2020
Surviving bacteria in space
... 1000 times the resistance of free cells. For example, pathogens like Pseudomonas and Listeria have been reported to attach and form biofilms on stainless steel, glass and even Teflon. Meanwhile, Salmonella cells that formed...
