January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
...of notable aerospace partners, and a design backed by Nanoracks, Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin. Northrop Grumman was given an initial... third private space station design – from Nanoracks, Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin – has a striking design...
March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
..., giving it capabilities well beyond what conventional chemical propulsion provides. That is one of the keys to how such a voyage can be undertaken. Acceleration with patience Ion propulsion had its origins in solid science, but despite some...
October 2015
Eating in space: from Michelin-starred chefs to self-sufficiency
... of taste and smell. But there remain considerable challenges to making astronauts self-sufficient in food production over voyages lasting several years. Ever since the first human left on a journey far from home, one of the...
January 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
...(2007) Celestial Mechanics: The Waltz of the Planets. Springer Praxis, Berlin, pp 94-95. 25 Leverington, D. (2003) Babylon to Voyager and Beyond: A History of Planetary Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, 2003, p.193. 26 Weibel, W. M., W. M. Kaula...
February 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... wishing to expand the economy into the High Frontier. References 1 See, e.g., Verne, J: Hector Servadac, Voyages et Adventures a traverse le Monde Solaire (“Off on a Comet”), 1877. 2 See, e.g., Tsiolkovsky, K.E.: The Exploration of Cosmic Space...
March 2016
Time for European visionary goals
...-term solutions for immediate questions. But where would we be today if the decision to fund Christopher Columbus’ great voyages of exploration were not taken by the Spanish crown because, let’s be honest, there was not much use...
