April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... technologies necessary to achieve a human landing. Thus, China has recent experience flying a complete two-way lunar transportation system, a capability the US government abandoned in 1972 and has never regained. Apollo engineers are long since...
March 2015
Shipping, the environment and satellite AIS
... In September 2011, S-AIS data was used to determine a Singaporean ship was providing false and misleading transportation logbooks to Transport Canada, stating their ballast exchange took place offshore when in fact it was only 50 nautical miles from...
October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
... latest model, H-IIB, is the result. It’s made five consecutive successful launches since 2009, providing stable space transportation. Beyond the ISS Another interesting project is the development of the Epsilon rocket. The experimental model, Hisaki...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
...fully address is the name ‘spaceplanes’. Both UK Department for Transport (DfT) and CAA legal experts classify spaceplanes as ‘aircraft...not benefit from the normal safeguards expected of public transport. While all these steps would make it possible ...
February 2016
Innovations in human astronautics
... Russia is developing key elements of a future transport system - a new generation manned transport vehicle and a heavy launch vehicle that will ... is planned for the end of the 2020s The new transport vehicle will be able to deliver a four person crew...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
... are a simple, low cost and space-tested technology with the potential to enable new forms of space transportation. In doing so, aeroshells are well positioned to make a valuable contribution not just to the future of sustainable LEO utilisation...
