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 ...
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 ...
07 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...
26 February 2018
Exploring the Planets – A Memoir
It’s not unusual to read about the leading lights of the American space programme, either in history books or biographies; it is rare to read a memoir from a British space scientist who served at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the early part of ...
16 July 2019
Fuel leak halts India's Moon mission
...24 seconds before the scheduled launch of Chandrayaan-2, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) gave no explanation for what it ...Moon Chariot 2—mission is part of India's ambitious space programme, and its success would have propelled the South...
