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April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... global leader in aerospace research, investment, exploration and commerce. Space Shuttle Endeavour sits on launch pad 39-A in May 2011 before its STS-134 mission, just months before the Shuttle programme ended. Today, the Cape Canaveral Spaceport, which encompasses...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
... to all of the photographers who are chronicling the magnificent beauty of spaceflight. To me, this picture of the Space Shuttle Discovery’s roll to the launch pad for her final flight is the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. With its wonderful complement... to and from the ISS together for the past 20 years – over half that time in parallel with Space Shuttle flights, and now our sole means of transport since the...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... and challenges will be faced? In this article Martin Lades considers the concept, the existing competition and the outlook for Space Elevator research. The first elevator may be as expensive as the Space Shuttle but ...the payload, as has been proven in some 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,...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...space asset within the space heritage discussion is the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Launched in 1988 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, it is clear that the venerable space telescope has a limited future lifespan. Of the six gyroscopes replaced during the STS... during STS-125 Hubble servicing mission four. Challenges There are many challenges facing the orbital heritage of the space industry. The need to remove the smaller sub-10 cm space debris ...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...pioneered in 1990 by the American shuttle-launched Prowler, since imitated by the Russian Luch Olymp (2014). In conclusion, it is not clear if the actual nature of military space has changed much since the ... Hendrickx in Belgium, tends to be outgunned by commentaries higher on suspicion and hyperbole. In the most challenging international situation for a generation, there is there is merit in finding ways of de-escalation, especially through...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
...the visitor centre, known locally as the Canberra Space Centre (CSC). He said, “Yes, do anything you want, as long it doesn’t cost anything.” I accepted the challenge. Channelling Indiana Jones I asked the station Director...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 crate had my heart pounding. It stood nearly ...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
... challenged the resistance-to-cold technical specifications for a rocket as being excessive for outer space, only to be told that it was based on the temperatures of winter cold endured on the long rail journey to get to the launch ...) and wide roads or railways to bring in the outsize cargoes. Three sites built long, adjacent shuttle runways: Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg and Baikonur. Structures Some facilities were abandoned and rotted but became...
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 ...data and services from private industry rather than develop, own, operate and sustain full-up space systems These challenges can be met. We must project military strength in order to deter our adversaries, focus government...
August 2021
Born to juggle in space
...near 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 my...months before my first parabolic flight, I read articles about how people move in weightlessness and the challenges they experience. It seemed that on parabolic flights, when people tried to push themselves from one...
