26 February 2018
Astronomy Photographer of the Year (Collection 5)
Astrophotography is both an art and a science and this is nowhere better ... one of the beauties of astronomy: that it crosses the putative cultural divide between art and science. What was the overall winner of the 2016 competition? A series of...
25 September 2020
Baikonur - Vestiges of the Soviet Space Programme
... Baikonur fits well into the Abandoned genre. More of an art book than a technical description of the place, it is ... illustrated by some of the colourful graphic and politically-informed art that ‘marketed’ the programme to the Soviet populace and the...
July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... edges, can destroy all but the most robust materials The X-51A represented the state-of-the-art in aerospace research, in which high-fidelity numerical simulation was combined with ground test and flight experiment...
July 2014
Space technology transfer portals and the chance progress of innovation
... exacting requirements. Take, for example, the University Eye Hospital in Maastricht. It installed a new state-ofthe- art microscope to be used in precision eye operations, where surgeons needed to manipulate tissue layers a fraction of a millimetre...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... between government and industry. These PPP sequentially leveraged significant joint government-industry investment in state-of-the-art infrastructure which was applied by each party for completely different applications and objectives. SERC is the...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
... lead to a large measure of understanding our planet. This includes the biological and environmental sciences, and the arts and humanities of human civilisation. The range of subjects that can be taught under the umbrella of Lunar Mission...
