June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
...’s cradle This engineering and legislative ‘cat’s cradle’ will be properly untangled once industry delivers the technical standards and products for specific RPAS equipment including autopilots, data link systems, Remote Pilot Stations, Detect...
June 2015
Preventing pilot spatial disorientation
...have been flying since the 1970s or earlier. It has a standard set of round gauges similar to most aircraft of this size. .... Twenty-five years from now I suspect this will be standard equipment, just like traction control and anti-lock brakes on ...
October 2015
Down to Earth: how to deorbit satellites and save money
... safety became more apparent, wipers had become a standard feature on all cars, dramatically improving visibility and ...risk criteria which is highlighted in several other international standards (for example, ISO 24113, IADC Mitigation Guidelines...
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...
