June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
...orbit. These spaceplanes look similar to the Anglo-French supersonic Concorde, taking off from and landing on conventional runways. In...staging, and some design logic. The Anglo-French supersonic Concorde of the 1970s could have been a precursor to the...
May 2024
Spaceflight revolution on a shoestring
...which a fleet of rocket-powered aeroplanes looking not unlike Concorde make frequent flights to and from orbit. Costs are ... on various aerospace projects, including the DC-8, DC-10, Concorde, the Skylark sounding rocket and various naval missile and...
October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
... design limits. However, the required design changes would all be straightforward and much of the technology pioneered by Concorde could be used. The Spacecab upper stage could be either a passenger module carrying about 20 people that remains...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... than its 200th voyage but the defects were there from the start. The supersonic airliner Concorde is in a museum because of inadequacy in its fundamental design. The World Trade Center in New York collapse was due...
February 2023
Cultivating cultural memory as Asgardians
... circles that look at the cosmos as a site from which vital forces emanate, One Humanity, One Unity is a concordant and essential response, to understand what Hermes Trismegistus already pointed out, “As above, so below”. We need to reconnect with...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... that circulate in social media today. I have, from there, revisited historic moments, such as the invention of Concorde and the exploration of Antarctica, as a way of understanding technological ventures such as Virgin Hyperloop and Virgin Galactic...
