June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... in knowledge production that is essentially under the purview of anthropology - that is, the study of culture. Using NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) website, a curious Earth-bound human can track the two Voyager spacecraft, launched 40 years...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... of water-ice that can be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen and subsequently used for rocket propulsion and life support. It also contains helium-3, an isotope that might be used in future nuclear fusion reactors. Asteroids...
September 2023
From the Earth to Mars
... the influencing factors have always been murky. I knew of Dr Robert Goddard and his pioneering efforts on liquid propulsion rockets, but history remembers Goddard as a recluse. And when I worked with my Russian colleagues they told me of Konstantin...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
...successful. Space manufacturing The commercialisation of non-chemical propulsion could happen sooner than expected In addition to ... of Accion Systems, holds one of the company’s propulsion systems for small orbiting satellites. With her is co-founder...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... Crew Module. MBC mission science elements. Depending on the quantity of residual cryogenic propellant remaining, it may be possible to propulsively brake the remaining MBC elements into a high elliptical Earth orbit. This could allow the two...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
... support structure, the launcher interface, the PRM/SCM separation system, some thermal hardware and a bi-propellant propulsion subsystem for orbit raising and transfer with a total delta-V of some 3.1 km/sec. LISA Pathfinder launch composite...
