November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... pushed engineers to redefine boundaries much further than they would have in a normal situation. This has transferred new technologies back to Earth much faster than might otherwise have been the case. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip2 on an early...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
... latest research into the debris threat and on new technologies aimed at mitigating debris creation and reducing the ...rate of one in 500 satellites per year. Implications for new constellations Taking our previous result of a sun-synchronous orbit,...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
...and is of paramount importance to our species. Rather than new technologies, products, weapons or national strategy, it turned out ... people by Space News. Winner of the 2015 World Technology Award, he Founded Deep Space Industries, a space resources...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... and the value it has in not only creating new knowledge, but new technologies that benefit all of us every day. The empty... role in that endeavour. We’ve been able to build many new exhibits and add lots of multimedia over time. We’re now even ...
April 2019
On-board propulsion set to drive the smallsat revolution
...received a US$2.8 million European Union Horizon 2020 grant in June 2018, ThrustMe is planning to finalise testing of its new technology and bring the system to market within a year. In the meantime, it also has a conventional plasma thruster product...
May 2019
Growing Australia’s space industry
... satellites, businesses being able to provide components for new space infrastructure developed overseas, as well as our researchers working together on new technologies such as laser communications. Our goal is to triple the size of the local space...
