March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... high data-rate optical LEO-to-GEO links at rates up to 2.8 Gbit/s,and a Q/V band payload preparing the commercial exploitation of Q-V Band, in response to the market demand for high data rates and more bandwidth. Also hosted is an Advanced...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... cooperation. There are also existing relations between ESA and EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) and other organisations. “At the same time,” explains Woerner, “there is a clear need to develop...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... possibilities for cold atmospheric plasmas in space. Thus the plasma research, which started in space and is being exploited in medicine on Earth, could now return to space for the benefit of the astronauts and cosmonauts, who carried...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... escape. Cooperation keeps nations beyond the Chandrasekhar limits of over-expenditure in space and would enable space to be exploited more effectively and optimally. International cooperation is the connecting glue that helps dodge the black holes...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... in Montreal, Canada, noted, the OST just did not foresee outer space as an area destined for commercial exploitation. The US Space Act is therefore causing much controversy and disagreement among space lawyers. In this environment, the...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
... system, i.e., increasing control capability and microbial contamination control features) In order to target a feasible ISS exploitation scenario, the system is being designed as a European Drawer Rack (EDR) II payload. EDR II is a European rack...
