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April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
...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 ...and exclusive to large communications players, today and in the future are becoming much smaller in size increasingly more capable, and certainly more accessible to smaller companies and universities. OneWeb Satellites, with ...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... 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...train wagon from. Feasibility then also dictates a smallest tether size that can be climbed on. Computer graphic of a Space Elevator tether terminus platform. Challenges and risks Space debris is a high risk for a static elevator, ...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...paint 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 .... Such criteria can range from uniqueness and representativeness (of a category of objects) to the size and storage requirements an object might have. Achievements made, inspirational qualities and aesthetics all have ...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... old. Those who played with Lego in the 1960s and 70s will remember it as a bag of standard-sized bricks and a large grey baseboard, on which houses were built using a selection of clip-in windows and doors...probably for commercial, 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 Mark...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... the large warehouse located onsite, I was pointed towards a corner with bunch of crates and boxes of various sizes, handed a crowbar and a box-cutter and told: “Go for your life. There’s bound to be something...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 crate had my heart pounding. It stood nearly as ...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...more than evident to the expanding population of space trackers, amateurs and enthusiasts. The key moment that military space became public was the space shuttle, whose operational capabilities and features were negotiated ...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 ...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
... so, and I 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... 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...
August 2021
Born to juggle in space
...might witness in a future space bar while sharing a space beer with some space friends. Growing up 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...
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... that our very way of life depends on space. Space has transformed how we communicate, navigate, produce food and energy, and conduct banking, growing our economy...
