November 2020
Walking on the Moon
...and CEO of Spacebit, takes a brief look at the history of rovers and explains why his company has developed one...been their lack of sustainability With an eye to this mixed history of lunar exploration, the privately-held, London-based company Spacebit...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
... the twenty-first century.” Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805, by J M W Turner. In one of the most decisive naval battles in history, a British fleet under Admiral Lord Nelson defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
... a small, active comet nucleus, and landing onto its surface. This was the first time in the history of spaceflight that such challenges were faced. We had to face them on our own, and we had less than...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
...agree on a major water loss event early in Mars’ history (4.5 billion years ago). Further significant losses of the ...shown that the total global inventory of water for the whole history of Mars would not have been sufficient to carve Valles Marineris...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
...to space himself. In one of the more unfortunate branding disasters of history, Dennis was hailed as the world’s first ‘space tourist’ His...and training his trip required and its incredible importance in history. To me a tourist is someone with a fanny...
30 January 2019
New physics needed to explain early expansion of the Universe
... the Universe works. Nonetheless, although it describes many phenomena with faithful precision, certain epochs in the Universe’s history are notoriously difficult to study because pinning down exactly how fast the cosmos has expanded, especially...
