17 June 2024
EU funds research into inflatable heatshield technology
... applications like recovering rocket stages and hypersonic entry on Mars. “It also signifies a great future contribution to space sustainability. With its potential to return launch vehicles and elements of satellites safely to Earth, it can become...
April 2024
Commercial launch development in Spain
... point in the future they will be, and we want to be prepared. Moreover, space sustainability is a very important topic for us right now. This includes not only sustainability in terms of the environment - for example, we use rainwater to deluge our...
12 May 2021
ESA signs contract with Swiss agency to clean space debris
... and developed economies, fast-moving space debris presents a looming threat to our presence in space-human and infrastructural alike. An April report 'Space Sustainability: The Economics of Space Debris in Perspective' from the Organization...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... there is actually no guarantee that this altitude also represents a minimum in the untracked population. Long term space sustainability. Call for control Kuiper and Starlink constellations will face a steady ‘rain’ of small debris objects descending...
January 2021
Safeguarding space - lessons from decommissioning in the energy industry
... Policy Institute Master’s programme at George Washington University, their research interests include space sustainability, orbital debris mitigation and ethics in science and technology. Riesbeck also holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Science...
18 June 2018
ESA Council backs Lunar gateway venture
...Europe to play a leading role in the global exploration of space and to achieve this, the council have identified three main...the exploration vehicle that will carry crew to space, sustain astronauts during their missions, provide emergency abort capability ...
