September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
The typical constraints of spaceflight mean that the mass, the volume, the power supply and the data feed of pieces of equipment must be kept as low as possible. Some analytical instruments routinely used in research laboratories on Earth - such as ...
January 2018
Space nation's first orbiting satellite
... into the next space age.” Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautic theory Konstantin Tsiolkovsky is well remembered for his statement, “Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
... and the ratio between the initial mass of the spacecraft and the final mass, expressed in Konstanin Tsiolkovsky’s famous rocket equation. Rocket designers usually focus on the exhaust velocity, as an increase in the exhaust velocity leads...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... species over a long period of time: a living, naturally breeding population inside a spacecraft. This is what Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the man considered to be the father of modern astronautics, called “Noah’s Ark”, also known as “generation ship...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... of space exploration, from the origins of rocketry in China hundreds of years ago, to the modern dreamers of spaceflight like Tsiolkovsky, Goddard and Von Braun. The items we had discovered in the warehouse helped to tell that story and...
February 2019
The challenge of procreation for future off-world settlers
... problem with ‘graviton generators’ or some other trope not available to us. Soviet scientist and astronautics pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) offered a solution for orbital space stations after he determined that spinning a large space...
