October 2015
Green cosmonautics: an ideal to strive for
...Airbus concept for a partially resuable spacecraft – the main engine has wings to fly home Cost efficiency would also be ... energy density. Intellectualisation of failure diagnostics, of engine and onboard systems operations control, and of spacecraft...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
...most demanding and hostile operational environments in which human engineering products are required to function Arrival at the ...and coatings, first noted in the early 1980s when engineers found Space Shuttle thermal blankets had been severely eroded...
February 2020
Climate change and spaceports – a difficult balance
... and accompanying support flights?”. The simple answer is that I believe the positives outweigh the negatives. I left engineering because of the limited options in the county of Cornwall whilst other contemporaries of mine reluctantly left the county...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
...said they covet as a source of air to breathe and fuel for propulsion. As scientists go to work on their samples, so will engineers, devising ways to extract the resources with better-than-simulated materials - nothing ultimately compares to the real...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
...1971. Chinese and Russian representatives meet at Russia’s rocket engine design bureau, Energomash. Lunar axis Russia and China could...the new CZ-9 heavy lifter, for which development of the engines is already well under way. In the meantime, Russia ...
May 2024
The challenges of satellite communications on the move
... of pointing error can represent a serious challenge to design engineers. With the need for complex beam steering computation across each... 50 years, Roger has design, development and engineering management experience related to many advanced civil and...
