08 February 2019
Mars MarCO CubeSats go quiet
... mini-spacecraft called CubeSats. The MarCOs - nicknamed EVE and WALL-E, after characters from a Pixar film - served as communications ... in near-real time, along with InSight's first image. WALL-E sent back stunning images of Mars as well, while EVE...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... Letraset printed information boards, an antenna model and some plaques on the wall, plus a film showing on a TV screen. By the time I...sheets of clear Perspex to mount images and text onto a wall. The 20 cm square sheets were another throw-away find...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... progress and the country’s nascent but rapidly growing commercial sector. As a space technology investor and former Wall Street defence analyst, Ms Millward expects US and allied government spending on space to remain robust in the coming years...
January 2019
Is the NewSpace bubble about to burst?
... of the dot-com bubble, just as his semi-autobiographical Liar’s Poker was a signature story of the 1980s Wall Street boom. Unfortunately, we don’t have anything quite the same about NewSpace, although there have been...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... that anticipated funding became unavailable, independent commentators have suggested that the writing was already on the wall for OneWeb. Whatever the reason, given the size and scope of the company (which had succeeded...
February 2019
A universal spaceship design concept
... spaceship. For the engine gondola mounting, large rotatable ring bearings are required in the outer side wall of segments 2, 4, 6 and 8. The rotatability of the engine gondola mountings is necessary, because they will either be used in a horizontal...
