July 2020
The four horsemen of space finance
.... Not only have key technologies such as launch reusability and 3D printing in space been demonstrated successfully, the nature of space finance has also evolved significantly. Ten years ago, the industry struggled to attract early stage...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
Last year’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landings led naturally to consideration of the project’s legacy and what has happened to spaceflight since. The size of the space industry ...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... generate around 2500 kg of rubbish, garbage, trash or waste, whatever term you prefer. The waste is either from natural, biological processes or from items on a spacecraft that are deemed no longer useful. Here on Earth, the recognised solution...
February 2022
FPGA computing reaches new heights
...’, rather than having their functions ‘fixed’ once and for all at the point of manufacture. The reconfigurable nature of FPGAs at a hardware level allows for the implementation of redundancy and radiation tolerance, which is of significant importance...
May 2022
Multinational training for interplanetary spaceflight crews
International interplanetary expeditions will, by their very nature, require crew members from different nations to work and live together for extended periods, so an important element of ...
June 2022
Patent protection for space manufacturing
... call for legal certainty when it comes to investing in space, particularly due to the high risk, high cost nature of the industry. Louise Mansion explains some of the key issues. Apatent provides an inventor with a legal right...
