September 2016
Small launcher market survey
... the cost of launch to make space accessible to more people. One space investor succinctly stated, “It only takes 15 students in a lab to make a satellite but so much more effort to launch that satellite. The LV side must become quicker...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
...activity be held accountable for their conduct and expansionism? Harris Innes-Miller is a political science undergraduate honours student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His studies include the history of economic crises, legal history, and...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... motivated by profit or for reasons of outreach to enhance STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) participation by students or the public [24]. Definition of the GEO protected region as per IADC guideline 3.3.2 [2]. This defines a toroid...
May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
... dependent on it being a staple comfort food; something that kept us all connected to our childhood, our days as college students and our ‘cheat days’ from whatever diet we were trying. Again, it tied us back to Earth. Cooking for...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
..., which could lend itself to any interpretation! The total weight of all the satellites was 1377 kg. Engineering students working on Nayif-1 developed by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) and American University of Sharjah (AUS...
July 2017
Rapidly evolving space industry needs faster UN response
..., seem promising but the long-term results remain uncertain. About the author Tomas Hrozensky is a PhD student at the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. His doctoral research at the Security Studies Department of the...
