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 …
LIVE – Why cant we see the Apollo sites from Earth with Marc D’Antonio – replay
Reading Time: 1 minuteOur 1st live steam where looked at a subject I have covered before of Why can’t we see the Apollo sites from Earth but this time with the help of astronomer Marc D’Antonio in more detail with viewer questions. Timestamped Sections Marc D’Antonio 0:34 Main topic start 2:15 Q&A start …
NASA’s Next Space Station LOP-G – was the Deep Space Gateway
Reading Time: 6 minutesGoodbye Deep space gateway, hello “LOP-G”, just in case you wondering what heck I’m going on about. This is the news that the next space station, the one to replace the ISS has had a bit of a Trumpian makeover and will now be called the “Lunar Orbital Platform – …
What Happened to the Nuclear Test Sites?
Reading Time: 10 minutesSince the formation of the united states, its mainland has never been invaded or had any major attack, by that I mean no major mechanised attack like that which happened in Europe but there are places there which have had more nuclear explosions than anywhere else on earth. Of the …
What’s Wrong with Earth’s Magnetic Field? – The South Atlantic Anomaly
Reading Time: 7 minutes From satellites malfunctioning to strange flashing lights seen by astronauts on the International Space Station, there is something odd happening in certain parts of space close to earth and the cause of these could have wide-ranging impacts on all of us in the future. In February 2016, the state-of-the-art …