You’d have to be under a rock (ha!) to have not heard about the recent meteor that entered out atmosphere over Russia on Friday (which just so happened to be…
Space
When I first wrote about Planetary Resources early last year I was erring on the side of cautious optimism because back then there wasn’t a whole lot of information available…
If you wander over to the Space section of this blog you won’t have to look far to figure out which company I have a huge man crush on. Whilst…
Propulsion in space is an extremely tricky affair, one that’s centred heavily on trade-offs. The engines we use to get into space are woefully inefficient due to the large amount…
New scientific discoveries get me excited, they really do. After discovering the awesome Science Daily I found myself losing hours in research papers that show cased everything from new discoveries with great…
Getting back down from orbit is no easy task, even when you’re doing it under ideal conditions. This can be made even more complex if the return is due to…
Cast your mind back 5 months, where were you then? I can remember where I was quite clearly: I was in a hotel room in a city called Bandar Seri…
Even though I don’t get suckered into conspiracy theories since I’m usually only a couple Google searches away from finding the facts I do find the dissection of them quite…
Want to feel really insignificant for a bit? I don’t know what it is but things like the galaxy IC1101, VY Canis Majoris and all other heavenly bodies that are just…
There’s been something of a goal shift within the space industry recently. For quite a long time the focus was on returning to the moon and establishing a presence there…