July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... was acquired by GenCorp and became Aerojet Rocketdyne. 2 Segal, Corin, The Scramjet Engine- Processes and Characteristics, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY 2009 3 O’Brien, T., and Lewis, M., Rocket-Based Combined-Cycle Engine Integration...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
... World (such as Boston MIT and Silicon Valley in the USA; Greater Shanghai; and the UK Golden Triangle of Cambridge, Oxford and London) to co-operate with each other to facilitate this access. The Golden Triangle includes the...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
... and_Missile_Defense 6: Zygmont, J. (2003). Microchip: An Idea, Its Genesis, and the Revolution It Created. Cambridge, MA: Perseus. 7: Sturgeon, T. J. (2000). How Silicon Valley Came to Be. In Kenney, M. (ed). Understanding Silicon Valley...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
.... Springer Praxis, Berlin, pp 94-95. 25 Leverington, D. (2003) Babylon to Voyager and Beyond: A History of Planetary Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, 2003, p.193. 26 Weibel, W. M., W. M. Kaula, and W. I. Newman 1990. A computer search for...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
...03542 About the authors Dr Robert Izzard is an STFC Rutherford fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, where he works on understanding binary stellar evolution. He was previously a professor at die Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... Council Consolidator Grant to support his planetary atmospheres research team. Dr Fletcher gained a Natural Sciences degree from Cambridge, a planetary science PhD from Oxford; and has worked as a research fellow at Oxford and NASA’s Jet Propulsion...
