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...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... EM-1 launch will be the first use of the Space Launch System (SLS), the largest rocket launched since Saturn V carried Apollo astronauts to the Moon. During EM-1, Orion will fly without a crew beyond Earth’s magnetosphere, orbit...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... 4,880 km, its diameter is only about two fifths that of the Earth - even Jupiter’s moon Ganymede and Saturn’s Titan are bigger. And although Mercury can appear as a very bright object when viewed from Earth...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... 27.5 metric tons (mt), or 1.4 percent of total rocket mass with over 2,000 mt on the launchpad. The largest rockets, the Saturn V and the upcoming SpaceX BFR (2017) version [4], compete with a half-dozen train-wagon-equivalents, at 140...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... the main bulk of those gases are helium and hydrogen, meaning the exoplanet is more of a small Jupiter or Saturn-like planet rather than a large Earth. As such it wouldn’t have a rocky surface, said Armstrong. Although TESS...
