July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... tend to be lucrative. Indirectly, countries often hope that investing in their space programmes will inspire their students to study science and technology fields, eventually spurring their economies, and that other locally-made technology ...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
... applied to the ESA Business Incubator Centre (BIC) at Harwell Oxford after winning a ‘hackathon’-style event for students called Future Business Pre-Incubator. However, to transform its idea into a commercial business, the fledgling company...
December 2014
Technology drives space exploration: we won’t make it to Mars without investment
... that may enable spaceflight capabilities that were previously unattainable. NASA is working to engage citizen scientists, Makers, students, industry and the general public in our work through a variety of programmes, including prizes and challenges...
December 2014
Before Rosetta: Svetlana Gerasimenko’s story
... not an unusual profession and there was stiff competition to join the faculty. I was a first year PhD student when we made a field trip to Almaty to observe short period comets. Klim Churyumov was the head of the...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
..., it represents a fantastic tool for education. The Satellite Applications Catapult is currently using it as a framework to educate students on the new opportunities space is offering2 by making them build a PocketQube satellite over a weekend. The...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
... on the market will increase the number of investors interested in space business. PW-Sat, billed as the first Polish student satellite Currently, the most common way for investors to “exit” investing in private space companies is through takeover...
