January 2021
Developing the economy of a space nation
... messaging traffic at least tripled during the Sitting, which perhaps indicates that even in a few short years, communication habits have ... and resident numbers are the key performance indicators for Parliament and Government. The alliances between...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... the leadership of Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, that signified the pursuit of space projects as normative indicators of the state’s power, status and modernity. An artist’s impression of an Indian space defence missile thought to be within...
May 2021
In-situ propellant design for Mars ascent vehicles
.... Its atmosphere has a density of 0.014 kg/m3 and a pressure of 0.006 atm (610 Pa) at the surface. Low atmospheric density indicates that if Mars ever had liquid water on its surface, it would have evaporated immediately. So even if we find water...
November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
...and transportation planning. Tracking with GPS data can indicate areas in need of development due to increased activity... being heavily polluted. A visual monitoring system could readily indicate whether the quality of a water source was increasing or...
May 2024
Spaceflight revolution on a shoestring
...Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Bristol Spaceplanes and others indicates that these markets are potentially worth several tens of... 50 times more, or a few thousand pounds. Market research indicates that a few million people per year would then take a ...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
...crust than their frequency in the Apollo sample collection would indicate. What is clear from this is that the composition... Moon’s characteristic Na-depletion. The loss on ignition (LOI), indicating the total volatile content in the rock, is about 1 ...
