Author Archives: Peter van Blyenburgh

European Commission UAS Panel’s 5th Workshop – Research & Development

The fifth and final workshop in the five-part series of European Commission UAS Panel Workshops run jointly by the European Commission’s DG Mobility & Transport (MOVE) and DG Enterprise (ENTR) on the topic of insertion of UAS into European controlled airspace, will take place at the Royal Military Academy, 8 rue Hobbema, BE-1000 Brussels, Belgium on 9 February 2012. Continue reading →

Shackleton Energy Company to Mine the Moon for Water with Manned and Unmanned Systems

The process of establishing the world’s first operational lunar base and propellant depot business in space is underway as the Shackelton Energy Company launches its initial fund raising campaign. This comes in the footsteps of recent amazing new discoveries of huge deposits of propellant-feedstock ice on the moon by NASA and other international space programmes. Continue reading →

European Commission UAS Panel’s 4th Workshop

On 16 November 2011, the European Commission UAS Panel’s 4th Workshop will take place in the Europa meeting room at EUROCONTROL headquarters in Brussels, Belgium from 09.00 to 17.40 (registration starts at 08.30). This workshop will cover the following topics and their pertinence to UAS: societal impact, privacy, data protection, liability and ethical concerns. Continue reading →