29 March 2017
SpaceX set to reuse rocket for the first time on Friday
... already been launched last year to send cargo to the International Space Station last year. The company’s philosophy of keeping costs of space flight down by reusing its rockets, will finally be realised – to some degree – on Friday, as the...
26 June 2019
LightSail 2 gets ready to make its debut in space
... by nothing more than the power of photons, may not have ultimately started with Carl Sagan – the philosophy behind light sails started as early as 1608 with Johannes Kepler – but the well-known American astronomer...
23 April 2018
The International Atlas of Mars Exploration, Vols 1 & 2
... investigations performed. The larger volume 2, which includes a short volume 1 update section, follows much the same philosophy, though it covers the age of the rovers and thus includes detailed maps of their excursions. The author...
21 June 2019
ESA's new mission to intercept a comet
... for the next decades of scientific exploration of our Universe. "We are also happy to maintain the ‘fast’ mission philosophy by selecting Comet Interceptor within a year since the original call for proposals was made." The Comet...
01 October 2019
Finding our Place in the Solar System
... than the average physics tome. The book will be of interest to historians of astronomy and students of the philosophy of science, but it could be read by anyone with a reasonable level of scientific literacy. It is illustrated, though not profusely...
30 March 2021
The Value of Science in Space Exploration
... discover it, appropriate it and make sense of it in their own way. This is effectively what the author, a philosophy academic, is attempting with this book. His “overarching argument”, he writes, “is that space science is uniquely epistemically and...
