February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
... conditions. NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID), planned for 2022, will evaluate a hypersonic inflatable aeroshell technology that might be suitable for an ISS down-mass capability. Aeroshells also have potential...
February 2020
Climate change and spaceports – a difficult balance
... and cleaner fuels. Finally, these craft will reach space and create a next generation of supersonic, then hypersonic, intercontinental and spacefaring craft. My vision is a positive one: Cornwall becomes a wealthier county and implements greener and...
13 April 2018
Air breathing rocket gets significant funding boost
... the future of air and space travel, we expect to leverage their revolutionary technology to support Boeing’s pursuit of hypersonic flight,” says Steve Nordlund, Vice President of Boeing HorizonX. Financial investments in Reaction Engines will also...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
... active orbital debris removal from LEO, solar power satellites, space mining, planetary defence, space tourism, hypersonic transportation, and commercial activities in protospace (the area above commercial air space, i.e. above 21km, and below...
May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
...potential of our cluttering up Earth orbit with space junk, or the advent of cubesats, megasatellite constellations, hypersonic transport, stratospheric and celestial body pollution or robotic freighters - and many other issues stimulated by emerging...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
... Black Arrow and Black Knight rockets, a Skylark sounding rocket, a variety of Australian sounding rockets and a Jabiru hypersonic research rocket. Of particular interest are the remains of the Redstone rocket used to launch the WRESAT satellite...
