March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
.... Both satellites had been launched on the 10th Shuttle mission of Challenger, but each had suffered separate ...more than twenty years later, we are without the Space Shuttle and despite significant advances in robotic satellite servicing technology, ...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... out more about these missions. Only a few reported on its successor, the X-37 spaceplane. In effect, the secret shuttle flights marked the normalisation of military space. Romantic adventure that spaceflight might be, those in authority reached the...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... been based upon this type of assessment and the US Space Shuttle, for example, was ‘sold’ on the assumption of 25-30 flights...United States. References 1 “Mathematica Economic Analysis of Space Shuttle System” NASA-CR-129570 URL: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/...
12 March 2015
ESA re-entry vehicle could pave way for reusable launcher
... point. The rolls are similar to maneuvers used by re-entering space shuttles to bleed off speed. “It will need to do these banking maneuvers... Curiosity Mars rover landing system and the space shuttle’s drag chutes. Splashdown in the Pacific Ocean is...
25 February 2018
After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space Program
...end of the Apollo era to the ‘What Next?’ Space Shuttle era with some damning analysis on the way. “The space... of the Nixon space heritage, especially with respect to the space shuttle”, says the author, but rightly makes no apology. After a career...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
...thin for either the parachutes of Apollo or the wings of the space shuttle. In 2012, the Curiosity rover’s “Seven Minutes of Terror” to... into space. When astronauts launched from Earth on the shuttle, they had the support of a large and capable team...
