SpaceTech

Welcome to this quarter's special edition newsletter, focusing on designing for high-reliability and space environments. These two areas present many of the most challenging requirements for designers - extreme temperatures (both hot and…

Crowdfunding is helping inventors invent, filmmakers bring their visions to the screen and artists create their own comic books. Yet can this technology-driven approach to funding give a boost to the private space race? A recent story by…

In what at first glance seems like a terrible sense of direction, in March students from the University of Washington fired rockets from kites and balloons at an altitude of 3,000 ft (914 m) straight into the ground at Black Rock,…

The International Space Commerce Summit – ISC2013 was hosted on 29th-30th October by global summits organiser IRN at the Radisson Blu Edwardian Bloomsbury Hotel in London, UK. The summit gathered the elite of the space industry with…

I’ll admit it; I’ve been a science/science fiction geek for many years. There’s a picture of me as a child with my cousins and I’m wearing a toy fighter pilot helmet. The majority of my favorite authors are all science fiction writers.…

The ISC2013 Summit will be held on Tuesday,  October 29, 2013 at the Radisson Blu Edwardian Bloomsbury Street in London, England. There will be a large focus on commercial activity in space with the agenda covering a wide variety of…

The recently announced intentions of SpaceX about recycled rockets brought a lot of excitement to the space industry. Besides the challenges, if the plan is successful, the recycling of rockets can reduce significantly the costs,…