March 2017
Space is open for business
... during the ESA Council at Ministerial level in December 2016 European Member States agreed to continue funding ISS exploitation activities through to 2024. Pictured (from left): Gerd-Ulrich Grün, Sylvie Duflot, Olivier de Laet, Walt Aldred and...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
...extension of present national rivalries into this new field, and to promote energetically the fullest exploration and exploitation of outer space for the benefit of humankind. These principles were elaborated in succeeding resolutions that became the...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
... by the IPC and the internal mandatory activities steering committee. The revision of the 2007 Launchers Exploitation Declaration for the exploitation phase of Ariane 6, Vega C and their evolutions will be applicable for a period running until the...
April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
... which small launchers currently under development hope to exploit. Namely, when a small satellite customer flies rideshare...this market that small (often private) launcher developers hope to exploit. The main issue here though, is that the size and...
May 2018
Delivering farming solutions with satellite-powered data analytics
...the best interest of their populations. Earth observation data today provides a solid foundation with decades of datasets to be exploited for value creation in applications right here on Earth A fundamental issue in using data analytics for providing...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
...exhaust velocities: fusion and antimatter propulsion. Fusion propulsion exploits the energy that is released when atoms fuse. ... confirmed or where we have not yet figured out how to exploit them for this purpose. They promise huge advantages, if they...
