June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... for their human makers’ sensibilities. David MacMahon, chief engineer of Breakthrough Listen, on the Green Bank Telescope. Probing...have to be stored and processed and David MacMahon, chief engineer of the team, designs and manages the hardware and ...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... as telecoms relays for Mars InSight, the MarCO CubeSats will be parked in a heliocentric orbit and will provide engineers and scientists valuable data of how these miniaturised spacecraft components will weather conditions in deep space. Exploration...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
...the Harwell Campus, and its samples are available for loan to support relevant planetary science and engineering projects including testing of rover/instrument components, instrument calibration, life detection experiments, ISRU processes, and public...
January 2020
Apollo girl - camaraderie and discrimination in the Apollo era
... was no longer a ‘girl’, but I was the only female engineer in the division of 10-15 people, and the wider OSTDS, which ... president, then as president), representing approximately 200 engineers and scientists, and later adding some 300 administrative...
April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
... a viable solution exists. Almost 100 years ago, back in 1922, Dr Robert H Goddard began experimenting with rocket engines while lecturing at Clark University, Massachusetts, and he achieved the first ever flight of a liquid propelled rocket just...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
...ROOM’s US editor, Amanda Miller, delves into his engineering background and the key technologies of the Spitzer Space ...are the programme management, mission assurance management and the chief engineer. It’s like the three legs of a stool. An ...
