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...
March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
... all the surrounding technology, ranging from the launch platform to the control room where the rocket’s voyage is monitored, including the delicate moment of the landing. Moving further away, all the technical crews come...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... steamships which carried them were the product of 400 years of maritime development since the earliest transatlantic voyages. Musk’s ambitions are immense - yet at the same time his approach to them is disarmingly modest Musk’s proposed...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... Modules provide sufficient partitionable habitable volume to support Crew well-being and safety for the long voyage home. In a nominal mission re-entry, the crew is divided into two groups of three along with containers of samples...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
...-and-a-half times round the world non-stop. The present record, held by the Virgin Galactic Voyager, is just once. To fly one-and-a-half times around the world without in-flight refuelling would need...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... northernmost eastward jet at 78 degrees N latitude is the site of another peculiar, long-lived feature that was seen by Voyager in 1981, Hubble in the 1990s, and was rediscovered by Cassini in 2006. The jet stream takes on a sinusoidal appearance...
