December 2017
Dressing up for space
... reminiscent of lunar craters and made with padded and lightweight insulating material - Multi Layer Insulation (MLI) film. This technology, which involves layers of aluminised mylar, is used for various applications in spacecraft thermal control...
June 2018
We live on a planet!
... certainly one of the most powerful ‘rediscovery’ moments, because it was a view of Earth seen by human eyes, captured on film, and shared with the rest of us. The view of Earth that astronauts are experiencing from the ISS...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
...low-noise background. Nevertheless, the aged plastic ML items floating on the surface are likely to be covered by a thin film of water, which degrades the signal strength. Another limitation to spectro-radiometric techniques is the fact that, in time...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... director Jim Cameron who, interestingly given this was 1998 and long before Avatar, wanted to shoot a 3D film in space. We spoke to others as well. But then, just by chance, there I was giving the update to the grassroots...
December 2018
Asgardia at Escape Velocity 2018
... ground-breaking story. In addition to a discussion panel featuring authors and engineers examining the lost science of the film, visually stunning prop replicas and reproductions were on display including a nine-foot tall Monolith, Clavius moon...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... had put up a few 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 arrived to work there 32 years later, other than the staff not living...
