May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... assessment of the technical and organizational causes of the Columbia accident - concluded that NASA’s organization for the Shuttle program combined, among other things, all authority and responsibility for schedule, cost, safety and technical...
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/...
13 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...
29 August 2022
Engine problem leads to scrub of SLS Artemis 1 mission
... more than one million seconds of total ground test and flight firing time. During the Space Shuttle programme, the RS-25 underwent several design updates to improve service life, durability, reliability, safety and performance. SLS...
