February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
... operators, but of key interest to regulators, policy makers and all who recognise the necessity of achieving sustainable space development. SpaceTug, Airbus’ autonomous satellite servicing vehicle, will rely on advanced robotics, electric propulsion...
March 2021
iPhone moment for the Earth observation industry
... the app revolution enabled by the iPhone, data from space can enable a revolution of applications to help us build a sustainable future, to understand our planet and make better business decisions. The author argues that the ‘iPhone...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... executes activities that tend to be risk averse, based primarily on public financing, and generating competence-enhancing, sustaining innovations. NewSpace, on the other hand, pursues common, non-governmental market goals bounded primarily by market...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... least because it exemplifies two best practices that we would all do well to aspire to; it is an extraordinary example of sustainability because it functions as a sensitive organism and now recycles up to 100 percent of its waste, and it is the only...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... of the Artemis campaign. If it proceeds as planned, Gateway will help test the technologies and capabilities required for a sustained human presence in deep space. While the Space Race didn’t become ‘official’ until President John F Kennedy...
October 2025
High-altitude platforms - the search for an optimised legal framework
...or space law, or some ‘bespoke’ hybrid of the models - may provide the optimum structure to facilitate safe, sustainable and cost-effective access to HAO by a mix of aircraft and space vehicles with substantially different operational characteristics...
