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April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
...and investing in commercialising aged or under-utilised assets. Facilities that once launched NASA’s Apollo and Space Shuttle missions are now launching commercial rockets. The state’s spaceport system is a living example of ...Processing Facilities (OPF) of NASA that were used to turnaround and process the Space Shuttle after landing for subsequent re-flight to space. Space Florida secured a long-term property agreement for the first of these, OPF ...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...spectacular launch failures. The rocket equation for chemical rockets results in only a small payload fraction. The space shuttle carried only one train-wagon-equivalent payload to LEO, around 27.5 metric tons (mt), or 1.4 percent ... will require an active avoidance and defence strategy, e.g., by ‘swinging’ the tether around larger debris pieces, by moving the ground anchor around or by creating oscillations with energy input on the tether. Repair...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... of note commemorates the International Space Station, which has now been occupied continuously for two decades, since the launch of the first component in 1998. This 864-piece set is a decent facsimile of ...the ISS, measuring about 48 x 30 x 24 cm when complete. It is mounted on a Lego-built stand with a Space Shuttle, capsule and several ‘cargo spacecraft’ that can ...
August 2021
Born to juggle in space
...the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and in Florida, within view of Space Shuttles leaving the planet, I developed an early appreciation for space exploration. In addition to my love of the cosmos, and perhaps related to... intentions. A common approach has been to attempt to express to the viewer what the artist is feeling. In this piece, I bring the audience as close to my experience as can be offered through video - I wish to offer you...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
...started with the smallest one first. Inside were pieces of heatshield, materials from a Mercury spacecraft, and several types of thermal protection tiles used in the Space Shuttle programme. For a space-nut like me, it was heaven. The big ...was not going to happen for free. There comes a time in any project where the realities of money set in. I discovered, however, that there was some money available. For decades, NASA would send a representative ...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...flake travelling in excess of 17,500 miles per hour is significant, as shown by craters observed in Space Shuttle windows. Whilst larger assets such as the ISS have Whipple shielding to provide a measure of protection from... up’ on re-entry. However, not all space junk burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere. The Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) produced a set of Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines which led to satellite operators...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Apollo programme, Space Shuttle launches, the International Space Station; all high profile human exploration programmes carried out by world governments. Many do not realise...as Iridium 33-Cosmos 2251 will occur every five to nine years. Each such collision will create thousands of pieces of debris and result in more collisions. Instead of no new launches, however, launches will continue with ...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...how worried should we be? At first sight, very. Several countries e.g., the USA, France and the UK have set up ‘Space Forces’ or ‘Commands’. There have been several anti-satellite shoot downs in the past 15 years (China, ...(Warner Brothers, 1983) unmistakeably reflected the US government and media portrayal of early space as ‘peaceful purposes’. The Space Shuttle had its own dedicated west coast military base, Vandenberg Air Force Base. Full ...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
..., etc, but probably no satellites that have actually flown in space. There are, of course, a few re-entry capsules and a limited cadre of space shuttles, manned vehicles that were deliberately designed to return to Earth. ... impact features on our museum exhibits and, although these might be deflected using shields, collision with a large piece of debris at a closing velocity of up to 15 km/second could completely destroy a valuable asset. As a ...
