Reading Time: 4 minutesWith the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing coming up and the prospect of having new lunar explorers both state-sponsored and private companies, how do you protect what are arguably some of the most important scientific and culturally historic sites in human history? You would think that the …
Why Can’t we Remake the Rocketdyne F1 Engine?
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs we advance our technology ever forward you would think that re-making a 50-year-old design should be easy but things are not quite as simple as they seem. When the Space Launch System or SLS was in development, NASA ran the advanced Booster competition to find a new booster system …
Vertical Landing Rockets Before SpaceX
Reading Time: 6 minutesYou may well be forgiven for thinking that rockets which take off vertically and then land again vertically were a recent development by the likes of Blue Origin and SpaceX but a quick look back the history of rocketry and you’ll see that this technique is far from new and …
How The Real Soviet Rocketmen Changed the World
Reading Time: 8 minutesIts said that around 400,000 people worked on the Apollo project to land a man on the moon and apart from the astronauts themselves, how many people spring to mind when you think about the who designed and oversaw its construction and operation, With the exception of Werner Von Braun, …
Aerospike Engines – Why Aren’t We Using them Now?
Reading Time: 7 minutesEver since the earliest rockets, we’ve seen them working with a bell-shaped nozzle from the First German V2 rockets right up to the SpaceX falcon heavy but their ubiquity doesn’t mean that they are the best way to do things, in fact, they have a major drawback which is one …
Why is NASA so Slow ?
Reading Time: 6 minutesEach generation reinvents space as the cosmic frontier: in the age of Gagarin and Shepard, test pilots grinned at the TV cameras to prove they were made from ‘The Right Stuff’. And in 2018 orbital space is becoming a playground for billionaire entrepreneurs, turning their childhood dreams into reality. In …
LIVE – The end of the Universe – with Ethan Siegel – REPLAY
Reading Time: 1 minuteIn today’s live stream, we will be looking at the end of the universe with theoretical astrophysicist and science writer Ethan Siegel. Along the way we see how the knowledge that we have built up to come up with our best theory about the start of the universe could show …
Reusable Rockets & Flyback boosters
Reading Time: 5 minutes One of the most impressive sights of recent years was the synchronised landing of the falcon heavy booster rockets, and although the centre core didn’t make it back simply because it didn’t have enough ignition fluid to restart all of the three of the centre cores engines the overall …
LIVE – USO’s Unidentified Submerged Objects with Marc D’Antonio – Replay
Reading Time: 1 minuteIn this live stream, we will be looking at USO’s or Unidentified Submerged Objects and what scientific explanations could be behind them. These could also be known as but technically incorrectly underwater UFO’s. These USO’s are objects which have been tracked by the world’s navies since the advent of modern …
What happened to the Ekranoplan? – The Caspian Sea Monster
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn 1967, whilst the U.S’s first spy satellite ‘Corona’ was busy photographing the Soviet Union, something unusual was spotted. It looked like a massive plane, but its wings were too short, it also sported the Soviet Navy Flag on it fuselage, so what was it? Maybe an unfinished aircraft or …