September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
... and BRIsat. For Europe’s aspirations in human spaceflight, cooperation as a partner in the International Space Station is the most evident illustration. But I am dreaming of a day in the future when a man or a woman from Europe will wear a blue star...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
...of true purpose – which should have been the creation of a productive, profitable and permanent human presence in space. Today, the only programme that approximates this purpose is the International Space Station (ISS), a wonderful example of a multi...
January 2018
Space nation's first orbiting satellite
... 2017 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as a part of the OA-8 Antares-Cygnus mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and deployed after Cygnus completed its mission at the ISS and was placed into a higher orbit. Speaking from...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
... has unique training, medical operations and astronaut operations/support expertise in Europe. While currently focused on the International Space Station (ISS) programme, a large part of EAC’s competencies is relevant for any future human spaceflight...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... on Mars, but those have significant differences from robots that remain in orbit.) The Canadarm used on the US Space Shuttle and Canadarm2 on the International Space Station (ISS) are well known. But those are officially ‘manipulators’ rather than...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... enough to overturn our current understanding of the universe? In a year’s time the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) is scheduled to fly aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS). The goal of ACES, put simply...
