February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... to take place from the UK, there remains a clear risk. Whatever the standards of engineering and technical qualification, spaceplanes will not achieve the same safety standards as commercial aviation, and may never do so. The CAA says that...
February 2016
A Self-Deployable Habitat for Extreme Environments (SHEE)
... include its easy transportability – it’s the size of a standard Euro shipping container - and its capacity to automatically deploy,...configurations using safety factors and recommendations from Industrial standards NASA-GSFC-STD-7000A-1 and MIL-STD...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... what might be called the legal, regulatory and standards problems that this new type of enterprise entails. ...Industries seem to have less of a legal, regulatory or standards challenge to their proposed efforts than Shackleton Energy and Moon...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
..., Mars colonisation will become possible. But getting the transport and life-support technologies up to the required standards of high reliability and low cost will inevitably require several decades of development. Therefore, the painstaking growth...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
... and maintenance cost; several years of operating service and product improvement would be needed to come close to these standards. However, early spaceplanes would still be safer and far less expensive than expendable launchers so initial models...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... missions, but rendezvous missions where we catch up with a comet take a little longer and will require a higher standard of reliability: ESA’s flagship Rosetta mission took 10 years to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Such long...
