July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... at the age of only 16 years and flying Grumman F9F Panther jets off the USS Essex carrier for the US Navy during the Korean... and in space. He experienced a bail out from his Panther jet in Korea after being hit by ground fire and he famously survived...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
...conditions continues on the International Space Station. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is working on at least two technologies ..., and WIRED. Rod has written extensively for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech. His books published in 2019 ...
February 2020
Climate change and spaceports – a difficult balance
... rocket launches employed in the 1950s Aircraft, and particularly jet airliners, are slowly becoming one of the main targets in...on the horizon (electric cars, electrified rail, etc), the jet airliner has none. This criticism is also levelled at space...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... heat exchangers and the second stage uses arc-jet heating, powered by an electrical generator that is... the simple nuclear systems that rely on thermodynamic heating without arc-jet augmentation. A simple nuclear engine of this type, called NERVA,...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
..., direct energy deposition, material extrusion, powder bed fusion, sheet lamination, vat polymerisation and material jetting. Each class brings different advantages and can accommodate different materials, scales, morphologies and environments. For...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... for Testing and Materials (ASTM) categorises additive manufacturing techniques into seven groups: binder jetting direct energy deposition material extrusion material jetting powder bed fusion sheet lamination (not currently applicable for ISRU) vat...
