March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
..., when Solar System-wide travel will be common, the volatile resources available there are incommensurable - from Saturn’s rings, to Enceladus and its geysers, from Europa’s ocean, to Titan hydrocarbon lakes. There, too, it’s all about...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... target. NASA missions that have used this slingshot effect include Galileo (Jupiter), MESSENGER (Mercury), Cassini (Saturn), and Parker Solar Probe (the Sun). Now, imagine that every time a mission executes a gravity assist...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin - as true envoys of almost all humankind. And all speak fervently of peace. On 16 July 1969 a Saturn V rocket lifted off on a historic voyage and four days later millions of people watched as the first human...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
... being closed in 1972. A spaceflight tracking station used for the Mercury, Gemini programmes and early Apollo Saturn rocket tests was also established on the Range, operating from 1960-66. Located not far from Island...
May 2018
Woman on the Moon
... in the city of Newcastle, enabled me to design and create my first ‘Moon Rocket’ which was inspired by the iconic Saturn V Apollo rocket (of course), but employed dramatic geometry and optical illusions to express the nature of space travel...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... and manufacture of optical instruments for space. His many space projects have included the Cassini probe to Saturn and he is currently Head of the Optics Section, at ESA’s ESTEC where he is responsible for a number of R&D projects in the field...
