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Articles tagged: Space Shuttle

  • Canberra Space Centre, CDSCC, Deep Space Network, NASA February 2019 Building a space museum from scratch

    ... were pieces of heatshield, materials from a Mercury spacecraft, and several types of thermal protection tiles used in the Space Shuttle programme. For a space-nut like me, it was heaven. The big crate had my heart pounding. It stood nearly as tall...

    • Canberra Space Centre
    • CDSCC
    • Deep Space Network
    • NASA
    Authors: Glen Nagle    
  • Ascender, Bristol Spaceplanes, reusable rocket, spaceplane October 2019 Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset

    ... since. In the 1970s, the early designs of the US Space Shuttle were indeed fully reusable, but this project was much larger (with... and the vehicle as built was largely expendable. The Space Shuttle was therefore as expensive and as risky to operate ...

    • Ascender
    • Bristol Spaceplanes
    • reusable rocket
    • spaceplane
    Authors: David Ashford    
  • intellectual property, patent of invention, Space patents, space start-ups February 2020 Debunking the myths on space patents

    ... lifeboat that will, at least, provide assurance that there will be funding in future. Artist’s concept depicting the Space Shuttle Endeavour with the 60 m (200 ft) antenna of its SAR sensor almost deployed in Earth orbit. Today, companies are...

    • intellectual property
    • patent of invention
    • Space patents
    • space start-ups
    Authors: Luis Diego Monge    
  • Baikonur, Dmitry Rogozin, Roskosmos, soyuz, vostochny April 2020 Reviving Russia’s space programme

    ... their Antares and Atlas V rockets, the latest batch arriving at the end of 2019. The retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, and American slowness in making replacement Starliner and Dragon spacecraft flightworthy, meant a ten-year stream...

    • Baikonur
    • Dmitry Rogozin
    • Roskosmos
    • soyuz
    • vostochny
    Authors: Brian Harvey    
  • Astro Garden system, Dream Chaser, Sierra Nevada Corporation, VORTEX 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...

    • Astro Garden system
    • Dream Chaser
    • Sierra Nevada Corporation
    • VORTEX
    Authors: Martin Chiaverini     Robert Richter     Thomas Crabb    
  • LEGO, LEGO Ideas programme, space LEGO July 2020 Lego’s replica space programme

    ...-piece set is a decent facsimile of the ISS, measuring about 48 x 30 x 24 cm 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. Like the real thing, the...

    • LEGO
    • LEGO Ideas programme
    • space LEGO
    Authors: Mark Williamson    
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