April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...mission, pushed for by the country’s then president, Abdul Kalam, a former aerospace engineer and father of India’s space programme. Chandrayaan-1 was designed to look for signs of water ice, long thought to have accumulated in the Moon’s permanently...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... only was the Scorpion technically feasible, it was also financially feasible in the context of actual space programmes undertaken in the last half century. With hindsight, the Scorpion study suggests that the late 1960s ...
June 2019
A reluctant American hero
... phones, the worldwide web and advanced robotics resulting. Other advanced technologies were boosted by the Apollo space programme investment, including heat resistant surfaces, fuel cells, vacuum devices, microwave scanners, freeze drying and solar...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
...of the Airstream trailer. But Airstream’s involvement with America’s space programme might have ended then were it not for a call... segment. Airstream has played a role in America’s space programme since the late-1960s, when it provided the vehicle...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
...The European Commission today has many space programmes, the most important being Copernicus and Galileo, ... decision to take people with limited physical abilities to space? ESA has a diversity programme for the entire workforce and aims to be an ...
06 August 2015
NASA pays Roscosmos $490 million for ISS access even as U.S.-Russia relations at a historic low
...immediate gap. Of course SpaceX in particular is aiming to revolutionise the entire launch market – while development of the Russian space programme has hit a number of rough patches, including funding issues for the new Vostok Cosmodrome, and spotty...
