August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... Moon and Mars that could accommodate many tens of people, and 2001’s spinning space station remains an iconic vision of an operational space base. The ability to construct such large facilities with safe habitable areas, propellant...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
... join the other sealed graves on Mars. This article is based on extracts from the book Space 2069 (Icon Books, August 2020, ISBN: 9781785786471, e-book and audio book formats). A hundred years after Apollo 11, humankind...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... his 40-year career in the space sector, he has worked across science, applications and engineering on some of Europe’s iconic space missions such as Giotto, Hubble, Envisat, Beagle 2, Lisa Pathfinder and ExoMars. In 2014 he took up a new role...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... to our understanding of life in space In terms of human issues, there is a plethora of cinema to choose from. While Gene Rodenberry’s iconic original Star Trek series boldly went where no physicist had gone before, there are forgivable reasons...
08 July 2015
Discovery of a five-star solar system in Ursa Major highlights mystery of proto-stellar disk fragmentation
..., one of the co-authors of a report on the unusual system at the UK National Astronomy Meeting, was of course referencing the iconic binary sunset scene from Star Wars: According to a statement made by Dr. Lohr, any potential planets within the...
26 May 2017
First results from Juno mission
... recognisable feature of this enigmatic planet. "On our next flyby…we will fly directly over one of the most iconic features in the entire solar system – one that every school kid knows – Jupiter's Great Red Spot...
