March 2021
Eyes on the prize
... China, Japan and elsewhere clean reliable energy sources will be in ever greater demand. Graphic produced by the European Space Agency to illustrate the concept of gathering solar energy in orbit and beaming the power to Earth. The opportunity for...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
...mission that might be able to exploit this opportunity is the Jupiter Icy moon Explorer (JUICE), comissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA). Scheduled for launch in 2022, JUICE is expected to arrive in the Jovian system in 2029 and head to Europa...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... directions. Other nations may well follow and, like the International Space Station (ISS), this approach could involve collective national initiatives. European Space Agency (ESA) Director General, Jan Woerner, is among those enthusiastic over the...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
... examples is a collision with Europe’s Sentinel-1A radar satellite that occurred in August 2016. As the European Space Agency (ESA) reported, a tiny piece of space debris hit its solar panels, causing a slight decrease in power and a change in the...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... there are many other lesser known projects like the UAE’s Mars 2117 project, and the European Space Agency’s Moon village idea. There are new business opportunities, from Luxembourg’s efforts on asteroid mining to Japanese start...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
... Today, we are competing with ICE Cubes (a public-private partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Belgium-based Space Applications Services) and Space Tango (a Kentucky, USA-based company that builds research and manufacturing systems...
