March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
.... Instead of chemical propellant, the new engine uses ionic liquid EMI-BF4. The powerful electric field educes ions from the liquid and ejects them with a high speed of up to 10 km/s, creating an exhaust thrust of 100 microns...
March 2015
Sowing a new dream
... to mention manual rendezvous and docking. The space class was unique, however – it was the first such educational endeavour for China’s human space mission and it was broadcast live not only in China but all...
June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
... of research in the present day. Besides its obvious philosophical value, such research can effectively be used in education. And the effectiveness of it is determined by the specifics of the problem of interstellar travel – which is based in the...
June 2015
FanWing: short take-off capability creates a new way to fly
... appear. The aircraft looks odd and amateurish, and the provenance was, as Peebles says himself, ‘a self-educated nobody from nowhere.’ He realises now that from the outside it would have been almost impossible to take...
