29 March 2018
Meeting the Challenge: The Hexagon KH-9 Reconnaissance Satellite
... an empty page was very hard”, he says. Nevertheless, he succeeded and this book is both a record of a fascinating space programme and a tribute to the people at the Perkin Elmer Corporation who worked on it (Appendix F even includes a list of names...
26 July 2021
EUMETSAT strengthens environment monitoring role
... missions under an agreement signed (23 July 2021) with the European Commission. Copernicus is a component of the European Union space programme and focusses on looking at Earth and its environment for the benefit of all European citizens. It offers...
07 September 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lander fails to touchdown successfully
...consoled scientists of the mission saying that he was proud of a programme that had come so near to putting a probe on the ...estimated $356m. "The best is yet to come in our space programme,” Mr Modi said as he addressed students present at the ISRO...
11 November 2020
Senate deals major blow to Bridenstine’s Moon ambitions
... up and of a down for the US space programme came this week on the heels of NASA administrator...Obama and Joe Biden cancelled the George W Bush administration’s Constellation programme that also planned to return astronauts to the Moon. Having resigned...
06 March 2019
Growing food from thin air to feed astronauts
... food production with solar energy anywhere,” says Pasi Vainikka, CEO, Solar Foods. Born from a NASA space programme, and further developed by the Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd and the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT...
07 January 2023
The Light of Earth: reflections on a life in space
... what Al thinks! The book concludes with “Thoughts after a Moon Voyage”, Worden’s views on the point of the space programme and a “Poem from the Far Side of the Moon” (from which the book’s title - The Light...
