August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... mission target. NASA missions that have used this slingshot effect include Galileo (Jupiter), MESSENGER (Mercury), Cassini (Saturn), and Parker Solar Probe (the Sun). Now, imagine that every time a mission executes a gravity...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. His ESOC experience includes the Columbus/ISS project and the Cassini/Huygens mission. David has a keen interest in reusable launch vehicles, having worked as a propulsion engineer at Rolls-Royce...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... in the design and manufacture of optical instruments for space. His many space projects have included the Cassini probe to Saturn and he is currently Head of the Optics Section, at ESA’s ESTEC where he is responsible for a number of R&D projects...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
..., on that day his prediction was right, but few believed him, including the observatory’s director, Domenico Cassini, who refused to believe there was any speed of light. It would be over half a century later before other...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
...’t understand yet whether they are the sources or sinks for the icy ring particles. Interestingly, the Cassini mission has determined that the rings are young and that the icy flakes that make...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... Investment Fund (EIF) announced that they were committing at least one billion euros over five years to Cassini, a programme that will fund early-stage start-ups, and invested €300 million into two space...
