October 2016
Unlocking the potential of annular ion engines
... Technologist for In-Space Propulsion at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, worked on NASA’s Deep Space One and Dawn missions; and NASA’s Next Generation Ion Propulsion System programme. References 1. Patterson, M.J, Soulas, G.C., Young, J.A, Crofton...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
Twenty years ago on 15 October 1997, a mighty streak of flame from a Titan/Centaur rocket split the pre-dawn sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was the beginning of an unprecedented journey of discovery, as the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft ...
December 2018
Coffee roasting in space
... probes and human exploration aboard the International Space Station (ISS) - have become commonplace. Now, at the dawn of the NewSpace era, we are starting to see innovative new business opportunities, such as asteroid mining, debris clean...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... issues we face and offers some innovative solutions that we might do well to heed. Since the Space Age dawned more than five decades ago, significant advances have been made in space exploration, scientific research and...
February 2019
Reflections on the future human condition
At the dawn of the Space Age, Walter Pons published a short book entitled Steht uns der Himmel offen? (Is the ...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
A new space age is dawning, an age characterised by commercial and technological development. Around the world entrepreneurial startups are building rocket boosters ...
