June 2015
The Aeromobil 3.0 flying car spreads its wings
... 1989, when Stefan Klein, the founder and head of the Department of Transport Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Slovakia began working on a concept of a flying car. In 2010, Klein joined forces with Juraj Vaculik and established...
June 2015
Preventing pilot spatial disorientation
It was 9:45pm on a clear, moonless night when I lifted off from the small airport in Western North Carolina, leaving all lights behind. Along with the lights went any reference to the world around me. As I ascended, I searched for a horizontal ...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... between EUMETSAT and NOAA. EUMETSAT’s polar-orbiting satellites (i.e. MetOp satellites) carry a set of state-of-the-art sounding and imaging instruments that offer improved atmospheric sounding capabilities to both meteorologists and climatologists...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... Space, Fabrication Laboratory and Incubation Center will augment the DSL. This will enable state-of-the-art design and manufacturing technologies that will shepherd sponsored projects through design, fabrication, prototyping, testing and...
March 2016
Captivating hearts and minds
... public but, as we have witnessed, has also inspired artists and musicians from around the world to produce art works in response to this daring space mission. In late 2013, Design & Data GmbH was approached by ESA with...
March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
... is where culture comes into the picture. How do we represent ourselves? How do we express these representations in science, in art, in all forms of interactions between humans? To be a bit more specific, is there such a thing as a ‘grand’ purpose...
