August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... system could be built within a few decades for a cost consistent with large science experiments such as the James Webb Space Telescope and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (about US$10 billion). The target velocity was 60,000 km/sec (20 percent of light...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... drag and gravity to take effect. The Hubble Space Telescope - cultural as well as scientific icon. Harvest ... pointing to the multiple issues with the forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Many opined that it was questionable whether...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... be robotically assembled in a tile-like fashion. Even space telescopes could be designed for robotic assembly. One of NASA’s candidate telescope designs to succeed the James Webb Space Telescope, LUVOIR (Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor), would...
January 2023
Is human space exploration DOOMED?
... contract will be picked up by other metagalaxies and go through the process of expansion and contraction. NASA James Webb Space Telescope image of Stephan s Quintet giving astronomers a ringside seat to galactic mergers and interactions. In the last...
14 April 2023
Europe’s JUICE begins its long journey to Jupiter
... the launch of XMM-Newton, which is still in operation today, and most recently, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope in 2021. “What a magnificent demonstration of Europe’s capacity to dream big and deliver results to match,” says Daniel...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... all the way back to the Apollo lunar missions. The established space research community in Scotland has been involved with projects such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ESA’s GAIA, ExoMars, BepiColombo and Sentinel missions. Its extensive...
