October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... 1975 NASA Ames/Stanford University Summer Study by Donald Davis. In his painting, the artist wanted to emphasise the challenge of sustaining a closed ecosystem in space. The urge to explore outer space, to discover, to colonise and ensure humanity...
October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
... and six peripheral windows that offer such amazing views of the Earth. The Challenge Star quilt pattern reflects the ‘journey’ of Karen Nyberg, and others, reaching for the stars in their own ways throughout their whole lives and...
21 November 2018
Jezero Crater chosen as landing site for Mars 2020 mission
... value of sites such as Jezero Crater, and a previous mission contemplated going there, but the challenges with safely landing were considered prohibitive,” said Ken Farley, project scientist for Mars 2020 at NASA’s ...
July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... transition that occurs as a vehicle passes through Mach 1, the speed of sound, where there is a change in the fundamental behaviour of the air moving past the craft. Some of the challenges of hypersonic flight are connected to high temperatures and...
July 2014
Space technology transfer portals and the chance progress of innovation
...do it. Identifying where that knowledge can be exploited in other sectors and making it available to the right people is the challenge, particularly when the target sectors and individuals within them are not necessarily aware of, nor looking out for...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... launch of a fully completed vehicle will not occur until the end of 2015, or the beginning of 2016. The challenge from Japan was unexpected. Insurers have already confirmed that the main Japanese launch vehicle, H-IIA, is reliable, while developers...
