March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... an overly aggressive schedule. The report showed how schedule pressure had influenced a major decision to refurbish a 1960s Saturn V testing facility at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi to test the SLS core stage, which NASA describes...
May 2021
In-situ propellant design for Mars ascent vehicles
... conditions for human exploration. Mars is also relatively close to Earth compared to other possible planets such as Saturn and Jupiter and although Venus is close its atmospheric conditions are extremely harsh. High atmospheric temperature ...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... Engineering Landmark. Continuing the great discoveries, in 2003, the planetary radar system found evidence of hydrocarbon lakes on Saturn’s moon Titan. And a few years later, complex organic molecules were discovered in Arp 220, the first...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... data, modelling and advanced visualisation. Scottish companies have even supplied batteries that are on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan. Astronaut Drew Feustel behind the wheel of a NASCAR racing vehicle. Developments in spacesuit technology have...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... Universe, in our own Solar System, JWST will turn to the icy moons Europa (Jupiter) and Enceladus (Saturn), studying them for signs of submerged hydrothermal vents as part of our hunt for ‘life elsewhere’. Even tiny...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
...,000 m3 volume VAB remains the biggest single-floor building in the world, once able to assemble four Saturn V rockets simultaneously, so huge that, but for air-conditioning, clouds would form inside. Getting the rockets...
