October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
The concept of the geostationary Earth orbit satellite was first popularised by Arthur C. Clarke in a 1945 article published in Wireless World magazine, in which the then naval officer and science fiction author proposed their ...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
...and domes together to form the test and flight articles. Technicians have welded both the liquid oxygen and ...testing and will soon be ready for final outfitting. The test articles, manufactured prior to the flight tanks, will be shipped to Marshall...
April 2018
Developing Mars
...the backbone of strategic and commercial opportunity. This article introduces and outlines the MATT terraformation process and ...develops “a strategy for national space activities”. Arguably this article’s proposals fall within the scope of the NSC and...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
...the same person has multiple operational roles. But for this article dual hatting will be limited to the case where the...that safety responsibility is not subordinated to operations This article analyses this response in the context of internal safety ...
June 2018
Publish or perish: the astronomer’s dilemma
...://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08033) was complemented by an analysis of annual reports and evaluation documents, and this article summarises the policies and their performance indicators. According to the sociology of science, policies and their performance...
August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
...through the design certification phase, which included atmospheric flight tests of the Dream Chaser Engineering Test Article at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. Lindsey is also responsible for launch, orbit operations, entry and...
