May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... development from safety or operations are simply not on the same time scale. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) berthed to Space Shuttle Discovery in 1997 for servicing and upgrading. The telescope only became fully operational after an initial...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... support the SLS pursuit of safety, with a record of 100 percent mission success over 135 Space Shuttle flights. At the end of the Space Shuttle programme, 16 RS-25 flight engines and two development engines were transferred to the SLS programme and...
March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
... over $800 million in revenue for Intelsat. Now, more than twenty years later, we are without the Space Shuttle and despite significant advances in robotic satellite servicing technology, we are currently unable to perform any on-orbit servicing...
26 February 2018
After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space Program
... in the book. “I am sure that many people will not agree with my assessment of the Nixon space heritage, especially with respect to the space shuttle”, says the author, but rightly makes no apology. After a career devoted to the programme...
13 March 2015
ESA re-entry vehicle could pave way for reusable launcher
...landing point. The rolls are similar to maneuvers used by re-entering space shuttles to bleed off speed. “It will need to do these banking ...NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover landing system and the space shuttle’s drag chutes. Splashdown in the Pacific Ocean...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... Right Stuff (Warner Brothers, 1983) unmistakeably reflected the US government and media portrayal of early space as ‘peaceful purposes’. The Space Shuttle had its own dedicated west coast military base, Vandenberg Air Force Base. Full spectrum...
