March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... that they succeeded spectacularly in showing a US public, whose lives had been dominated by Korea and the Cold War, a vision of a new frontier and great glory. In fact, they created a climate in which NASA could begin its...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
Initial discussions about joint operations for launches actively began 25 years later in the early 1990s, when the fall of the two blocks spurred Russia to further promote its already existing launch assets - including the heavy launcher Proton, as ...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... some of its biggest opposition. Regulations, many of which many were written long ago during the Cold War, come into play. While commercial satellites (and to that end commercial CubeSats) were recently removed from...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
..., operational and engineering sphere - has grown out of military considerations originally set in a two-sided cold war; today it is driven by both modern nationalistic defence and intelligence interests and, increasingly, commercial interests as well...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... ascent and co-orbital anti-satellite weapons. The JSpOC needs to use its resources to fight and win wars in space. I have heard time and time again from DoD leadership that they do not want to be the...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
.... Spaceplanes were not developed at the time because the ‘space race’ to the Moon, driven by the Cold War soaked up the available funding. The aircraft company design teams were allowed to disband and the lobby...
