February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...Space Elevator,” in 48th International Astronautical Congress, Turin, Italy, 1997. 8 J. Pearson, “The orbital tower: a spacecraft launcher using the Earth’s rotational energy,” Acta Astronautica, vol. 2, pp. 785-799, 1975. 9 B. C. Edwards, “The Space...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... but failed to find the necessary funding. He also persuaded the military to allow him to develop a heavy-lift launcher with various exotic military space missions in mind (anti-satellite weapons, for example) but this had...
January 2020
Apollo girl - camaraderie and discrimination in the Apollo era
... re-entered Earth’s atmosphere north of Puerto Rico. The problem was traced to a failed integrated circuit in the launcher’s pitch guidance module. Mariner 9, launched three weeks later, successfully completed the objectives of both spacecraft...
March 2021
Eyes on the prize
...in the global market the UK cannot focus on incremental gains. Disruptive opportunities are arising, including micro-launchers, miniaturisation, robotics, mega-constellations, and growing demand for satellite communications and Earth observation data...
