September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... satellites [8], projects underway to launch new constellations of many thousands of satellites - such as SpaceX, Google, OneWeb, Boeing and others [9] - could increase the global inventory by several orders of magnitude. The Australian economy, and...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... income. This artist’s view of future Moon exploration (bearing more than a passing similarity to Apollo) was released by Boeing in April as a concept supporting NASA’s Deep Space Gateway. Basically, this allows the progeny of the wealthy to dominate...
February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
...a cluster of large aerospace companies, including Spirit Aerosystems, which manufactures wing components for Airbus and Boeing aircraft, and UTC Aerospace Systems, a major supplier to international space programmes. There is also GE Caledonian, which...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
... also conducted with algae and humans soon after, both in Russia and the United States. In 1960, Boeing built eight photobioreactors holding 380 litres of algae and the system as a whole was capable of supporting one...
January 2019
Industry 4.0 will revolutionise the space market
... the Engineering School of the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and gained experience at Airbus and Boeing. After working on a project called Space Factory 4.0, Haschemi is committed to simplifying and standardising space-related...
April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... UK Space Agency that could lead to orbital rocket launches starting in 2021 using a modified former- Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 aircraft named Cosmic Girl. Many spaceports throughout the world have already successfully obtained...
