Month: April 2018

Northern Sky Research’s (NSR) newly released High Altitude Platforms (HAPs), 2nd Edition report forecasts $1.7 billion in cumulative HAPs revenues over the next decade for airships, balloons and pseudo-satellite platforms. Of the three platforms, the balloon market remains the largest and strongest driver of revenues. According to NSR, Latin America, Africa and Asia present the largest service opportunity,...

NW of Tahiti – it managed to miss the 'spacecraft graveyard' which is further south! pic.twitter.com/Sj4e42O7Dc — Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) April 2, 2018 China’s first human space station, Tiangong 1, finally fell back to Earth over the weekend, landing harmlessly somewhere over the southern Pacific Ocean. Although experts were unsure where the 18,740 lb. station...