October 2015
Growing space businesses in the UK: from incubation centres to public funding
... sites as gateways into the rest of Europe. Business growth for space companies inevitably translates to new technology development, whether it’s new hardware, software and applications, or services. For many space companies, there are many barriers...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
...deep space, we need to do more than develop new technology. Humans must come to terms with the idea ...Mars 2020 rover, which will carry an experiment to investigate the technology needed to extract oxygen from the carbon dioxide rich atmosphere of Mars...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... 3D Printed satellite in February 2014 But the space mining industry can also aid in producing and perfecting new technologies that could assist with other types of space missions, or produce innovations that can find useful implementation...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... nations to reap the benefits from supporting companies that are generating new technologies, access to scarce resources, scientific discoveries, employment and new sources of taxable revenue. Before Planetary Resources can extract materials from...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
... initial ‘blue-sky’ concepts into working prototypes. Higher level technology development is supported through the optional General Support Technology Programme (GSTP), maturing new technologies for space and the marketplace and honing industrial...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
...will allow us to continue to grow and manage our use of near Earth space. We need new ideas, new technologies, new markets, new legal and policy structures, and new ways of cooperating. The future will be exciting if we can make a success of managing...
