October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... 1975 NASA Ames/Stanford University Summer Study by Donald Davis. In his painting, the artist wanted to emphasise the challenge of sustaining a closed ecosystem in space. The urge to explore outer space, to discover, to colonise and ensure humanity...
15 June 2018
Company aims to reach orbit with spinning rocket
... a month and costing significantly more than the $500,000 the startup plans on charging, if SpinLaunch overcomes the challenges associated with the technology it could revolutionise the small launcher industry. The company is now moving forward with...
02 October 2020
Nasa funds ICON to develop a 3D construction system for the moon
... and SEArch+ are no strangers and have already competed against each other in NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Competition. The challenge, which started in 2015 and was structured in phases, each with multiple levels, awarded recipients prize money...
July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... transition that occurs as a vehicle passes through Mach 1, the speed of sound, where there is a change in the fundamental behaviour of the air moving past the craft. Some of the challenges of hypersonic flight are connected to high temperatures and...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
... McGill University Institute of Air and Space Law in Montreal, Canada. The challenge was to consider a new international initiative to bring an improved system of governance to the now blossoming field of new space activities. Some 120 participants...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... is intended to attract both established aerospace companies and small start-ups. The challenges and opportunities provided by space exploration and the utilization of space resources enable us to satisfy all of these ambitions. Broader access...
