May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... of JWST is passively cooled using a massive five-layer tennis-court-sized sunshield made of modified Kapton, the film that gave the lunar module its iconic golden colour. Added to the Kapton is highly reflective aluminium...
September 2023
From the Earth to Mars
... surprising, even stunning. I never expected that the magical ingredients included failed graduate students, famous film directors, overlooked visionaries, stubborn optimists, untrustworthy politicians and successful businesspeople. All of them knew...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
... scientists visit Taiyuan. The most open is Wenchang on the tourist island of Hainan, where huge crowds gather to film launches from nearby hotel balconies and the rocky seashore. The DPRK’s site must be the most...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
...: an earthly ethnography of the International Space Station, tens of academic and media publications, and several film and photography projects. Olga Bannova is a Research Professor at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering...
October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
...recoveries of three generations of FSW satellites (military designation Jianbing 1). Military reconnaissance was carried out using photographic film, from a prism-like panorama camera, which, after recovering the photo capsule, was developed on Earth...
May 2024
DNA across the universe - the new Noah’s Ark?
... Netflix series and the short story, The Wandering Earth, which became a box-office-record-breaking film in 2019. Li Bing giving a 5ml blood sample for DNA for the first launch of the project. The...
