... of Area 51 as a hotbed of government conspiracy: “U-2 test base? Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they?”. Mark Williamson, Space Technology Consultant
... first 300 or so pages covers the work of Earth-based astronomers while the final hundred deals with space technology. In itself this is interesting, because it reminds us that astronomy has followed the same route for all planets...
... investigation – as is the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) weather station – and is sponsored by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) and Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. “This is a critical first step...
...payloads after a set of manoeuvres was performed by the European Space Agency to make their orbits more circular. However, the orbit... Germany's ZARM Centre of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity, and France's Systèmes de Référence Temps-Espace.
... for the attainable accuracy of these tests,” said Sven Hermann at the University of Bremen’s ZARM Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity. “It is hugely satisfying for ESA to see that our original expectation that such results might...
...probes are close to the heart of many a space fan, not least because they are the most distant examples of Earth-built technology (Voyager 1 was some 20 billion km (138 ... a good telling of a great story. Mark Williamson, Space Technology Consultant