September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... technologies, as well as R&D activities in the fields of Space Applications, particularly Earth Observation, and Space and Atmospheric Sciences. IAE is responsible for the development of Brazil’s satellite launchers and extensive sounding rocket...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... mission or stored inside a logistics module, such as a Cygnus or Progress transport capsule, which are de-orbited into Earth’s atmosphere for destruction. The idea is to develop space technologies to convert trash and other waste materials into high...
March 2021
Campuses, clusters and a leading force in UK space
.... The site is home to the world’s largest fully steerable meteorological radar and carries out research in atmospheric science, radio communications, astronomy, space science and technology. In Cheshire sits STFC’s Daresbury Laboratory, recently...
April 2024
Unlocking the NewSpace economy through space-based solar power
... unattenuated, abundant and in constant supply - to microwaves, which can be beamed to a receiver on Earth with minimal atmospheric losses, resulting in gigawatt-scale baseload power. In recent decades, multiple organisations, nations and individuals...
