February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
... on the Moon, deploying Russian, US, Chinese and international space stations, developing entirely new space vehicles and systems like the Hubble Space Telescope, the Kepler Space Telescope, the Rosetta mission to land on a comet, Japanese missions...
16 January 2022
NASA Space Shuttle Discovery STS-31
..., the model has opening payload bay doors, a posable remote manipulator arm and a separate model of the Hubble Space Telescope that will fit inside the payload bay. Along with the split tail/speedbrake and moveable...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
...was necessary during the STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Originally the Shuttle was ‘sold’ on the assumption ... offers the only realistic way to operate a space launch system from existing airfields, including the possibility...
May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
... improve the protection of human health and the environment by regulating chemicals produced or imported in the EU. Part of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) solar array returned from low Earth orbit by astronauts after the HST’s first service mission...
