July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... edges, can destroy all but the most robust materials The X-51A represented the state-of-the-art in aerospace research, in which high-fidelity numerical simulation was combined with ground test and flight experiment...
July 2014
Space technology transfer portals and the chance progress of innovation
... exacting requirements. Take, for example, the University Eye Hospital in Maastricht. It installed a new state-ofthe- art microscope to be used in precision eye operations, where surgeons needed to manipulate tissue layers a fraction of a millimetre...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... between government and industry. These PPP sequentially leveraged significant joint government-industry investment in state-of-the-art infrastructure which was applied by each party for completely different applications and objectives. SERC is the...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
... lead to a large measure of understanding our planet. This includes the biological and environmental sciences, and the arts and humanities of human civilisation. The range of subjects that can be taught under the umbrella of Lunar Mission...
June 2015
The Aeromobil 3.0 flying car spreads its wings
... 1989, when Stefan Klein, the founder and head of the Department of Transport Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Slovakia began working on a concept of a flying car. In 2010, Klein joined forces with Juraj Vaculik and established...
June 2015
Preventing pilot spatial disorientation
It was 9:45pm on a clear, moonless night when I lifted off from the small airport in Western North Carolina, leaving all lights behind. Along with the lights went any reference to the world around me. As I ascended, I searched for a horizontal ...
