March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
..., aiming for some of the last uncharted worlds in the inner solar system. It also zipped past the oft-visited Mars, robbing the red planet of some of its orbital energy to help fling the spacecraft on to the...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... born, which K.Sivan, director of ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, admitted was one of the toughest. Dismissing oft repeated theories, ISRO chairman A.S.Kiran Kumar made it clear that the role of the mission was not...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... in 2012 - it may eventually open later this year or in 2019. Curious incident of the dog in the night time An oft-quoted conversation from the Sherlock Holmes novel Silver Blaze by Arthur Conan Doyle is apt and goes...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... new home. It took a few laps around Titusville and was present for the Orbital Flight Test (OFT) of Starliner in December. Starliner itself is important because, after NASA’s Space Shuttle was decommissioned there were no options...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... come across our fellow cosmic inhabitants, we’ll discover that Spock was indeed absolutely correct with his oft mis-attributed phrase: “It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it”. And that will make the political process...
31 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Publishes Letter to the Washington Space Establishment
...plans and actions to goals. Government should support -- and benefits from -- economic development and settlement. The oft-used analogy of building highways and supporting infrastructure -- not driving the vehicles or the industry -- fits. Government...
