February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... and several types of thermal protection tiles used in the Space Shuttle programme. For a space-nut like me, it was heaven. The... several types of thermal protection tiles used in the Space Shuttle programme. However, the big items like the LM descent ...
October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
...-like vehicle, it decided to forego complete reusability and the vehicle as built was largely expendable. The Space Shuttle was therefore as expensive and as risky to operate as the throwaway launchers that preceded it. Recent history seems to have...
February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
...there will be funding in future. Artist’s concept depicting the Space Shuttle Endeavour with the 60 m (200 ft) antenna of its SAR... a relatively new concept. For example, during the US Space Shuttle era, a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensor with a ...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... at the end of 2019. The retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, and American slowness in making replacement Starliner and ... appear until the late 2020s. The retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011 meant a 10-year stream of dollars for Russia from...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
... hundreds of atmospheres) characteristic of high-energy fuels and oxidisers such as hydrogen and oxygen (as used in the Space Shuttle main engine, for example). Another problem is that rocket engines, especially large ones, can be prone to unstable...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...when complete. It is mounted on a Lego-built stand with a Space Shuttle, capsule and several ‘cargo spacecraft’ that can be docked to the station.... that icon of human space travel, the Space Shuttle, as it drifts further into the mists of history...
