August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... and relay engineering telemetry from InSight as it lands, when it will be out of direct line of sight from Earth. MarCO’s mission objective is not science – its relay function serves an engineering purpose – but it is easy to imagine how it could...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
..., like Luigi Broglio Space Center’s (BSC) San Marco platform off Kenya and the Sea Launch platform, Ocean... colonial side of these histories to be explored. Although the San Marco rocket platform was trumpeted as bringing Kenya into the space age, the...
12 June 2017
US spy satellite buzzes ISS
... circled the ISS," reported satellite bserver Marco Langbroek of Leiden, The Netherlands. Amateur... the possibility of a collision avoidance manoeuvre. Diagram prepared by Marco Langbroek showing encounter. "USA 276 remained just outside the 4...
November 2016
Turning the Solar System into our backyard
...through a sustainable space economy. Magni Johannsson Co-founder, Disrupt Space Louise Lindblad, Simon Vanden Bussche and Marco Witzmann. T-Minus Engineering Seven years ago, after their successful attempt to launch a student-built rocket to a record...
March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
... technology in the private sector. She is the Principal Investigator of two experiments on the International Space Station – VEST (Marco Polo mission) and GOAL (Eneide mission). Prof Benedetto Quaquaro is a director of the ESA Fashion in Orbit course...
December 2017
Dressing up for space
... and spin-offs for space technology in the private sector. She is the Principal Investigator of the VEST (Marco Polo mission) and GOAL (Eneide mission) on the ISS.
