June 2015
FanWing: short take-off capability creates a new way to fly
...-putting, the company was basically a husbandand- wife partnership, with one other US director - or as a major organisation put it, ‘a mom-and-pop garage outfit’. One leading UK aerospace assessment company later fatally summed up the FanWing for...
02 December 2014
MAVEN studies Martian atmosphere
... parameter. Launched by an Atlas V rocket in 2013, it will carry out an initial one-year mission. Like the Indian MOM, NASA’s MRO and Odyssey Orbiter, MAVEN successfully survived a close pass by Comet Siding Spring in October 2014.
06 January 2021
India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years
... (ISTRAC) was India's nerve centre for the country’s first interplanetary mission, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan. Its Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) has also been tasked with scaling up its launch...
17 September 2021
Chinese astronauts return to Earth after 90-day mission
... Hongbo told state broadcaster CCTV after the 90-day mission, a record for China. "I want to say dad, mom, I'm back! In good health and good spirits!" he said after emerging from the capsule within 30 minutes of landing...
23 September 2024
Artificial Intelligence for Space
... not entirely-fulfilling sleep, I was disoriented… I was here on the Moon with my parents and brother on what my Mom described as a workcation”. In a way, this chapter summarises the book’s contribution to the AI-Space domain: much needed, but...
