18 April 2023
Spire launches customers’ Earth and debris monitoring satellites
... global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, successfully launched three satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-7 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, the military-run spaceport about 140 miles (225 km) northwest...
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
.... A good example of this is a joint European–Japanese research effort in key high-speed technologies for future air transport, dubbed Hikari1, which comprises 16 partners, 12 of them in Europe and four in Japan. This research combines Japan’s long...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
... cold of the PSR. The propellants are then stored to await either direct use to fuel ascent vehicles or transport to the point of use. The article’s opening illustration is a visualisation of the entire operation. Business case It is clearly much...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
..., it is still unclear if a human body can be kept in hibernation for years without causing serious damage to the organism. Transporting egg cells automatically raises the question of how to raise these humans at the target destination. For ‘uploading...
November 2017
Geospatial maritime solutions
... AIS collectors cannot provide. Can you provide an example of where space-based systems supported actionable MDA? Transport Canada requires vessels to exchange their ballast, or material that is used to provide stability to the vessel, in the open...
June 2022
Patent protection for space manufacturing
... protection in these countries may be unnecessary and irrelevant. However, on the contrary, if exclusions do not apply for the transport of articles through a launch or return country, then these countries may offer a first line of defence for patent...
