September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... the satellites are highly valuable, they are also vulnerable and they make highly attractive targets. Britain’s Blue Streak rocket was launched for the first time from Woomera in 1964. Smaller, shorter endurance...
June 2019
Asgardia’s parliament – a year of progress
... for many centuries and a lot has changed in that time. For example, in the early 20th century, Britain’s political system took the rather ‘radical’ step of giving women the vote. Who would have thought...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... concept development for the Musuem of Cosmology. By comparison, Kelly MacDonald reminds us that throughout 19th Century Britain, “not only were [science] museums regarded as exemplars of analytical techniques and as useful for scientific research...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
...-scale. Shortly after, a spectacular aurora, bright enough to cast shadows, appeared along the southern coast of Britain. Spacecraft in geostationary orbit effectively became solar wind detectors as Earth’s magnetic shield buckled under the extreme...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... Science Museum in London, donning a headset and taking a trip to fly around an iconic satellite of your choice - perhaps Britain’s Prospero, launched in 1971 and still in orbit. You could then compare its condition with the flight...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
...); Luna 28 (Germany); with the largest contribution, a laser landing system, drill, sample handler and analyser on Luna 27 (Britain and Italy). However, this is hardly a programme of cooperation. The days of the Soyuz rocket at the Kourou launch...
