December 2014
From the green economy to green space
... to full capacity, this won’t be enough to improve the ecological impact of the space industry. What it needs is a green technological breakthrough: multiple-use rockets with a high-mass effectiveness, without toxic fuel, and returnable rocket stages...
June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
... his research has so far produced four patents. He is also co-author of a textbook entitled Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Technologies, Modeling and Control [John Wiley 2014]. Tatiana Farcas is a programme manager and AR/VR Research Assistant for the...
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
... to opening up space for more users. Creating such an environment will open the proverbial floodgates for space technological innovation and affordable modernisation of aging space architectures. Daniel Lim is President and CEO of Xtenti, LLC, a new...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
... Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) for the US and potentially for the EU, a big issue confronting this technology is that, like radar, it is dependent upon ground stations - and it is not possible to install and maintain these over...
November 2018
Connecting and collaborating for innovation
...drive innovation. We need to be imaginative, identifying need and where potential solutions might lie, ensuring that we drive technology to meet those aims. An example is the use of the microgravity environment to understand how the human body adapts...
May 2019
A matter of perspective
... expansion of the human presence in space and the technological artefacts humankind has fabricated. Even so, and despite all... machine, and the pushing back of frontiers through technological innovation. space debris I (2012) visualises the population...
