February 2016
Space – Overcoming Our Limitations
... pushed us to not only look up at the skies but to actively seek the means to go into space. But as the Cold War and the Space Race took hold of the world, the philosophical ideas behind space exploration took...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... be no doubt 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
..., it faces 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...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
... day. 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...
