June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... Launch Services (ILS), ULA, Sea Launch and Land Launch, all of which were oriented towards launching relatively large satellites to geostationary orbit. Meanwhile, Eurockot and Kosmotras specialized in launching light, low-orbit apparatuses on this...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
... needed in order to explore and develop space. However, the overall economic activity associated with spinoff efforts is relatively small, likely because the technologies in question were developed for government needs and not in response to market...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
...I contacted several astronomers I know to do follow-up observations, using relatively small to mid-size telescopes to take spectra of the star to... transit-like feature. He got back to me relatively quickly and said it’s completely clean. He said there...
October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
... of an impact event. Two disaster management exercises took place relatively recently: the first in April 2013 and the second in ...safe distance away from the risk corridor while still within relatively easy reach of the areas likely to be affected. ...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
...found its respective position in this cooperation with relative ease, while still maintaining mutual independence for ...has found its respective position in this cooperation with relative ease, while still maintaining mutual independence for space ...
October 2016
Unlocking the potential of annular ion engines
...mechanism associated with gridded ion thrusters ensures electrical efficiencies in excess of 90 per cent; an important consideration relative to thruster and system thermal management when processing high power. Also as the power-to-mass ratio of SEP...
