November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
.... Computer-generated image of Reaction Engines’ facility at Westcott, Buckinghamshire, where it plans to undertake the first ground-based demonstration of its SABRE air-breathing rocket engine in 2020. About the author Mark Thomas has been Chief...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
...Projects team, led by Liberty’s Dr Kyle Landry, which quickly identified that ADBM, like many of its group, demonstrates both the qualities of antibiotics (Penicillium is a cousin) and characteristics seen in other members of the group, some of which...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... the reaction wheels and batteries, a concern that can realistically only be dispelled through long term demonstrations in deep space. A credible alternative is mother-daughter architectures, where CubeSats are tactically deployed on large flagship...
August 2018
Earth observation game-changer
... a platform from a different partner, integrated with ICEYE’s SAR instrument. This three-faceted approach was chosen to demonstrate different development and manufacturing processes and to test different platform systems before moving into full-scale...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... the microlensing planet detection method works. It makes use of the gravitational deflection of light that was first demonstrated by Sir Arthur Eddington in the famous 1919 solar eclipse expedition that provided the first observational confirmation...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... InSight is clearly the main attraction of this mission, the expedition to Mars is also serving another purpose - a technology demonstration of two mini-spacecraft called MarCO A and MarCO B, or just MarCO for short. Each craft is six CubeSats...
