June 2014
In thrall to a star: understanding the Sun will help us understand our own climate and environment
... our ability to forecast and predict the impact of solar storms at the Earth. Further reading The Sun, Alexander D., 2009, Series: Greenwood Guides to the Universe, Greenwood Publishing. Storms from the Sun, Carlowicz M. and Lopez...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
Famous for being the home of mission control during the Apollo program, the city of Houston now has its very own commercial spaceport – the tenth such facility in the US. Based at Ellington Airport, its proximity to a large population limits ...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
.... Fourth, personnel costs were low. In the words of the director of the Houston-based Rice Space Institute, David Alexander, space engineers cost much less in India than they do in the US. Roddam Narasimha, a leading Indian aerospace scientist...
12 October 2016
‘Asgardia’ to become the first new Space Nation
... Space Agency, ESA) have independently launched satellites on their own indigenously developed launch vehicles. Professor David Alexander, Director of the Rice Space Institute at Rice University, Houston, Texas said: “As low-earth orbit becomes...
