05 April 2017
The final journey for EUMETSAT’s oldest operational meteorological satellite
... more new spacecraft are launched each year. Engineers are therefore looking at ways to resolve the problem of space debris, which is now becoming a major problem.
April 2019
Cleaning up space
...questions of mission licensing and made changes in national space policy to support the growing space industry. In 2016, the UK initiated a Space Strategy with a focus on topics including in-space robotics and, in 2018, announced its ‘Prosperity from...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... at the University of Leicester, an expert in strategy, space warfare and the military uses of outer space, and the author of War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics and several papers on space policy in a variety of academic journals...
01 June 2021
Space junk collision highlights need for intervention
... in the debris population, through both mitigation and remediation of the debris environment,” said Houman Hakima, of Space Strategies Consulting Ltd, Ontario, Canada. Writing in the Autumn 2020 issue of ROOM, Hakima says: “ In-orbit collisions...
12 September 2022
Scotland’s space sector flexes its green credentials
...’s Environmental Task Force and funded by Scottish Enterprise, the roadmap has been produced by space strategy firm AstroAgency in partnership with Glasgow-based Optimat. Jane Martin, managing director at Scottish Enterprise, said: “It’s almost...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
...ESA German astronaut Alexander Gerst onboard the ISS. Implementation of national objectives in accordance with the German space strategy is carried out in large part in the context of ESA programmes. These are complemented by projects in the national...
