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 ...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... between EUMETSAT and NOAA. EUMETSAT’s polar-orbiting satellites (i.e. MetOp satellites) carry a set of state-of-the-art sounding and imaging instruments that offer improved atmospheric sounding capabilities to both meteorologists and climatologists...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... Space, Fabrication Laboratory and Incubation Center will augment the DSL. This will enable state-of-the-art design and manufacturing technologies that will shepherd sponsored projects through design, fabrication, prototyping, testing and...
March 2016
Captivating hearts and minds
... public but, as we have witnessed, has also inspired artists and musicians from around the world to produce art works in response to this daring space mission. In late 2013, Design & Data GmbH was approached by ESA with...
March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
... is where culture comes into the picture. How do we represent ourselves? How do we express these representations in science, in art, in all forms of interactions between humans? To be a bit more specific, is there such a thing as a ‘grand’ purpose...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... employment and security are dramatically different than they were ever before. As an illustrative example, it has been artfully noted that it would be far easier for Moses to come and live in the times of Napoleon and Thomas...
