December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
... which are also good greenhouse gases. This mechanism, though, would require innumerable and continuing numbers of interplanetary flights because the CFCs break down photolytically into smaller molecules. Manufacturing them on Mars might be somewhat...
June 2015
The day Philae landed: how a rough touchdown still made history at the Rosetta Mission
... way to the comet surface. For me, this was the moment of great relief, seeing that after 12 years of interplanetary space travel Philae was ready to set foot on the comet.The operations team could now lean...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... of this discussion and include consideration of the physical and psychological issues facing crewmembers embarking on interplanetary travel.6 Related to this are the values underpinning human exploration and colonization: questions of the conditions...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
...planetary astronomer Dr. Harold Reitsema, with 30 years of experience at Ball Aerospace in designing and building of interplanetary spacecraft and astronomical imaging detectors, to be Mission Director. Sentinel would be the first proposed deep space...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... artists In 1950s Britain there was RA (Ralph) Smith, who worked with Arthur C Clarke and the British Interplanetary Society. Smith was an engineer as well as an artist, so was able to design his own vehicles and hardware, which...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... resulted in a joint commercialisation of the Russian Proton heavy launcher, which was by then mostly dedicated to interplanetary space probes or soviet satellites placed in geostationary orbits. Soyuz launch vehicle in the assembly hall at Baikonur...
