October 2019
Skyrora – building on British space heritage
... northern Scotland in August 2018, and again in July 2019 with the launch of the Skylark Nano vehicle. Skyrora... the company’s own test facility in Scotland. Engine test in July 2019. The third stage of the XL carries the payload into orbit, following...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... Trace hydrocarbon and nitrile gases abundances in stratosphere of Titan and their evolution from 2012 to 2017 (Coustenis et al. 2019 Icarus, in press). Furthermore, after the NSE, the onset of a strong enhancement of several trace gases such as HC3N...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... middle road that I have attempted to describe in The Cosma Hypothesis: Implications of the Overview Effect (Multiverse Publishing, 2019). The hypothesis argues that the universe is interconnected, evolving and self-aware, in the sense that humans...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
... a prototype Microwave Electrothermal Thruster and worked on hollow cathode neutralisers for the RIT 2X ion thruster. In 2019, he co-founded NSS with Manuel. Georg Herdrich is a scientist, engineer, and expert on space-relevant plasmas. He is Head...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
...NASA’s return-to-the-Moon plans but the agency announced in 2019 that this approach was no longer a priority and that... integrated lunar lander instead (top). No specifics Nevertheless, in 2019, NASA had authorised Boeing to start work on 10 more core...
April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... and services, thereby increasing the consumption of cloud services, whether for compute, storage or network capabilities. In mid-2019, Descartes Labs built the first system on the TOP500 fastest supercomputers list to run completely on public cloud...
