There is an amusing scene in one the comedy film follow-ons to the BBC Steptoe and Son comedy television series in which the two rag and bone characters find an abandoned baby at Christmas time. As they do so they look up to see a Bethlehem-like star in the sky, and...
For those who thought that 1kg CubeSat nanosatellites and 0.1-1kg picosats were the smallest satellites that would work, Stanford University is trying to prove that even smaller femtosats can also do the trick. They have devised a “Sprite Chipsat” configuration...
Jules Verne in his 19th century sci-fi books From Earth to the Moon and is sequel Around the Moon, had the designers of “Columbiad” super cannon wondering from which US state the cannon-launched shell-like spacecraft would be launched from. The finalists...
In what is becoming a habit, NASA has been forced to admit that its plan to have crew aboard commercial launches of commercial spacecraft has been delayed again. Specifially, the uncrewed test launches of both SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and the Boeing CST-100 Starliner...
SSL, the former Space Systems/Loral spacecraft construction company owned by Maxar, has decided to withdraw from its construction contract with Maxar spin-off Space Infrastructure Services LLC (SIS) to build the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS)...
While some men have accused the #MeToo campaign for partly emasculating them, actually there are more serious threats to their virility – chemical ones. There has long been concern that the difficult-to-filter female hormone oestrogen in the water supply...
