June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
... detailed plans for interstellar travel emerged. These included Freeman Dyson’s Orion study, based on nuclear pulse propulsion, and the works of Leslie Robert Shepherd.2 Antimatter, predicted by Paul Dirac in 1928 and discovered by Carl D. Anderson...
13 August 2018
NASA to partner with six US companies to develop space exploration technologies
..., Servicer and Exploration Vehicle Replenishment and Life Extension” and “ High Efficiency 6kW Dual Mode Electric Propulsion Engine for Broad Mission” The projects will advance satellite servicing and in-space platform propellant replenishment...
13 January 2021
The UK Space Agency and Rolls-Royce launch study into nuclear-powered space exploration
... in just 3 to 4 months – roughly half the time of the fastest possible trip in a spacecraft using the current chemical propulsion. Nuclear space power is anticipated to create new skilled jobs across the UK to support the burgeoning UK space economy...
July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
...with a modern flight control system. Scramjets can’t operate at lower speeds, and so must be paired with other propulsion cycles, such as a rocket or a high-speed gas turbine, to carry a vehicle from ground to hypersonic flight. A hypersonic aircraft...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... project and the Cassini/Huygens mission. David has a keen interest in reusable launch vehicles, having worked as a propulsion engineer at Rolls-Royce and then as a system engineer at British Aerospace on the HoToL spaceplane. More recently, he has...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... US officials promoting the Artemis programme have said they covet as a source of air to breathe and fuel for propulsion. As scientists go to work on their samples, so will engineers, devising ways to extract the resources with better-than-simulated...
