July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... operator O3b Networks, with a fourth Soyuz launch planned from CSG in early 2018. Moreover, the recent milestone contract that Arianespace signed with the American company OneWeb that projects the deployment of a constellation of nearly...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... year. These near-Earth asteroids represent a resource base that can transform humanity’s future. The legislative milestone passed in the United States was just the beginning. In February, the Government of Luxembourg announced its intent...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... on the human body NASA should set up a step-by-step logical schedule of progressive and realistic goals. Each milestone must be interesting to the public, even while NASA incrementally builds its space-faring capabilities. Realisable, short...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
... later the spacecraft could reactivate full telemetry transmission and we saw that it was perfectly healthy: another milestone achieved on the long journey to the target comet! As predicted, Mars had deflected our trajectory back to Earth...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
... ISS under NASA’s Commercial Re-supply Services 2 (CRS-2) contract. Dream Chaser has successfully completed its first milestone under this contract and is now being prepared for the next round of tests. Its first flight...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
...’s US Commercial Remote Sensing Policy (2003). The area of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster as viewed by SPOT 1. An important milestone was the launch of Ikonos-2, the first commercial EO satellite to collect images with a ground sampling distance below...
