August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... work was by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky who established the basic mathematical and engineering basis for spaceflight. However, it was not until the development of nuclear energy that science fiction writers and engineers began...
January 2021
Asgardia’s project for a new module to expand Space Station
... of the United Arab Emirates astronaut programme and other initiatives such as the Indian, Turkish and Nigerian spaceflight programmes. Proposed position of the Asgardia node module in the overall ISS architecture. ISS commercialisation The current...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... continued to make tremendous progress in 2020, successfully delivering historic missions to Mars and the first commercial human spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS). This year could be even better, suggests Josephine Millward. The...
June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
... authors provide a progress update based on research work conducted at the University of Surrey, UK. Space science and human spaceflight were very much at the origin of the global space effort. They have not only been vital...
