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April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
...Orbital 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 1,...Frank DiBello was selected in 2009 to lead Space Florida, the spaceport authority for the State of Florida. From this position, he develops and executes programmes designed to attract, retain and grow the aerospace ...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... 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...,” Acta Astronautica, vol. 152, p. 123–126, 2018. 22 J. Pearson and E. Levin, “Lunar Space Elevator Design in Lunar Space Elevators for Cislunar Space Development,” Star Inc., 2005. 23 M. Lades, “Mars Lift Update,” in IAC18, Proceedings, 2018. 24...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
...and when it is feasible. Primary and secondary structural components, interfaces and supporting elements – the design of all space architecture attributes needs to follow such an approach. Defining an appropriate and feasible level of standardisation...lunar settlement Maria Antonietta Perino, has been working for many years at Thales Alenia Space on the design of different building blocks for Moon and Mars in-orbit and surface infrastructures, with...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...published roles of the first Sputnik, Explorer and Vanguard satellites, even though Sputnik used a rocket initially designed as an intercontinental ballistic missile and Explorer the A-4 derived Redstone. Ironically, it was a General, ... 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...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
...am so thankful 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...of launch. There is a tendency to focus on the spaceships taking people to space and for some reason we seem to think there is less intricacy of design in the ones that don’t – not true! And as we see from ...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...Space Shuttle, capsule and several ‘cargo spacecraft’ that can be docked to the station. Like the real thing, the model bristles with payloads, communications antennas and a posable manipulator arm. In this case the designers..., lack-of-saleability reasons). It could, however, be time to consider that icon of human space travel, the Space Shuttle, as it drifts further into the mists of history and rose-tinted recollection. About the author...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... and diverse crowd from all aspects of the space industry - CubeSat developers, university researchers, space law and finance professionals, quantum software designers, solutions architects, robotics experts and suborbital launch ...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 ...
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... to tune in the camera and lighting. Together, we have crafted ‘Space Juggling’. The final sprint to full performance creation involved designing, building and programming a series of circuits which track my orientation as ...
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.... management and control in an increasingly congested environment. Eventually, FAA/AST should be designated as the lead US government agency for space traffic management, complete with authority to take action to minimise collisions of objects ...
