August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... out of direct line of sight from Earth. MarCO’s mission objective is not science – its relay function serves an engineering purpose – but it is easy to imagine how it could be turned into a science orbiter. If we had added a bigger propulsion system...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
...as a Replicant. The Nexus 6 Replicants were superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created them. Replicants were used Off-world as slave labour, in the hazardous exploration and colonization...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
...equation Unfortunately for our astronauts, there is no engineering or technology solution available today that can sufficiently ..., the Liberty and JPL teams had optimised a biological engineering plan that could be implemented at the ISS and on...
February 2018
Are we asking the right questions about space debris?
... examining databases at http://www.satview.org 5 Ogunnaike, B.A., “Random Phenomena: Fundamentals of Probability and Statistics for Engineers”, CRC Press, New York, NY, 2010. 6 Tinsley, C., Dillon, R., and Madsen, P., “How to avoid catastrophe,” HBR...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... for their human makers’ sensibilities. David MacMahon, chief engineer of Breakthrough Listen, on the Green Bank Telescope. Probing...have to be stored and processed and David MacMahon, chief engineer of the team, designs and manages the hardware and ...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... as telecoms relays for Mars InSight, the MarCO CubeSats will be parked in a heliocentric orbit and will provide engineers and scientists valuable data of how these miniaturised spacecraft components will weather conditions in deep space. Exploration...
