February 2020
Climate change and spaceports – a difficult balance
... and accompanying support flights?”. The simple answer is that I believe the positives outweigh the negatives. I left engineering because of the limited options in the county of Cornwall whilst other contemporaries of mine reluctantly left the county...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
...said they covet as a source of air to breathe and fuel for propulsion. As scientists go to work on their samples, so will engineers, devising ways to extract the resources with better-than-simulated materials - nothing ultimately compares to the real...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
...1971. Chinese and Russian representatives meet at Russia’s rocket engine design bureau, Energomash. Lunar axis Russia and China could...the new CZ-9 heavy lifter, for which development of the engines is already well under way. In the meantime, Russia ...
May 2024
The challenges of satellite communications on the move
... of pointing error can represent a serious challenge to design engineers. With the need for complex beam steering computation across each... 50 years, Roger has design, development and engineering management experience related to many advanced civil and...
October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
... great focus - she has three degrees in mechanical engineering and her graduate research investigated the control of thermal ... installing the Japanese laboratory. Then, as a flight engineer for Expedition 36/37 she lived aboard the Station for almost...
October 2025
Satellite technology - from operational challenges to strategic opportunities
..., power supply, sensor payloads and orbital configurations. In this article, the author reviews the applications of these engineering creations and the developments in technology that enable our orbiting infrastructure. Demand for secure, high-speed...
