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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #120 on: 12/20/2014 03:29 am »
A page from my LOSAT-X article.

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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #121 on: 01/26/2015 03:28 pm »
Spaceflight Vol 57 No 02 – February 2015

 Cygnus recovery With the Antares launch vehicle grounded until a replacement engine can be found, what plans does Orbital Sciences have for maintaining a logistics supply to the International Space Station and how soon can flights resume?

Orion flies! The editor tracks Orion spacecraft 001 on its maiden space flight on the world’s most powerful launch vehicle and examines some of the technology that helped it fly farther than any vehicle designed to carry humans has been for more than 42 years.

Asteroid Mining for Lunar Tourism Dave Dietzler looks at the possibilities for humans in asteroid mining and the logistical requirements this will require, what propulsion systems might be necessary and how much energy it takes to get the job done.

Few and Far Between Regular Spaceflight contributor Nick Howes talked to astronaut Jack Lousma about his work for NASA during the Apollo programme, his reflections on Apollo 13 and his activities aboard Skylab.

 David A Hardy – A Big Thank-You! BIS President Alistair Scott and Spaceflight editor David Baker team up to separately pay tribute to one of the UK’s outstanding space artists, be it for fact or fiction. -

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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #123 on: 02/23/2015 12:21 pm »
Inside the March issue an article I co wrote about Morpheus, and photos I took of the lander.
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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #124 on: 03/21/2015 09:26 am »
Spaceflight Vol 57 No 04 – April 2015

http://www.bis-space.com/eshop/products-page-2/magazines/spaceflight/spaceflight-2015/spaceflight-vol-57-no-04-april-2015/

Force Feedback
 Operating robots in space has its limitations but the European Space Agency is working on a novel way of improving the dextrous ability of machines to replicate the manipulation of human hands and fingers with a feedback device designed to help narrow the gap between astronauts and their proxies.

Elfordstown Earth station
 John O’Sullivan takes us to East Cork, Ireland, on a tour of the Elfordstown tracking and communications relay facilities and describes the outstanding work being carried out there on a wide variety of national and international activities.

Bootstrapping Lunar Industry – Part Two
 In the third of a series looking at the mineral resources of the solar system, Dave Dietzler concludes his discussion about the possibilities of not only utilizing the Moon’s resources for indigenous activity and re-provisioning the Earth but also for fabricating structures from local materials.

The Hubble Space Telescope – at 25
 It is 25 years since the world’s most famous space telescope was lifted into orbit by Shuttle. Philip Corneille takes a look back at a momentous quarter-century of outstanding and productive science, from the fitting of corrective lens instruments on the first servicing mission to the complete refurbishment in orbit.
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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #125 on: 03/21/2015 01:02 pm »
That's a good cover. I think that Spaceflight often misses some great opportunities for cover photos. There are so many spectacular rocket and spacecraft photos out there to choose from.
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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #126 on: 04/06/2015 12:25 am »
Spaceflight Vol 57 No 05 – May 2015

Jupiter for CRS and Mars
 With an ever pressing need for supplying the International Space Station with independently developed non-NASA logistics vehicles, the race is on for contracts from the space agency to send cargo to the ISS with the new round of bids. Lockheed Martin has put together an international team for this and much, much more.

Riding the Farnborough centrifuge
 Spaceflight’s Nick Spall took the opportunity to visit the QinetiQ centrifuge at Farnborough, now celebrating its 50th anniversary in a facility used to train fighter pilots and high-speed test pilots. It is also the kind of familiarization future space-riders will need to fly aboard the SpaceShip2, Lynx and possibly other spaceplanes.

Sex and health in space
 With ambitious proposals for one-way trips to Mars, settlement colonies funded by TV shows and confident expectations among the general public about heading for the Red Planet, the Editor takes a clinical view and looks at the serious medical obstacles standing in the way of humans going on very long journeys beyond Earth.

New Horizons for Pluto
 Spaceflight’s resident astronomer Philip Corneille provides a preview of the imminent encounter with Pluto as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft homes in on one of the solar system’s most enigmatic bodies, providing a recap on how it has haunted astronomers for decades.

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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #128 on: 05/19/2015 08:56 am »
Spaceflight Vol 57 No 06 – June 2015

 VULCAN – Made in the USA!With a need to cut costs and shift away from Russian-built RD-180 motors for its Atlas launch vehicle, United Launch Alliance has come up with a new rocket to replace both Atlas V and Delta IV and introduces some novel schemes for reusability. But will it work?

Asteroid’s rockAs NASA mulls options for utilizing the giant Space Launch System, the options are narrowing for the kind of mission astronauts in an Orion spacecraft might fly as a first step in a long and winding road to Mars. Not everyone is happy.

Dawn at CeresNow in orbit about the dwarf planet Ceres, the Dawn spacecraft is about to begin its descent to a much closer path from where its instruments can fully analyse this enigmatic and puzzling world orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.

Ice plumes on EnceladusScientists studying data from the Cassini spacecraft have interpreted tiny silicon-rich grains of rock in Saturn’s rings as coming from hydrothermal activity on one of its moons, Enceladus, and that this is contributed to by plumes of gas and dust erupting from its south pole.

Interstellar – a 2D look at 4D spaceFounder of Imaginals, which numbers NASA among its clients and which has its offices at Arthur C. Clarke House with the BIS in London, James Parr takes a deep and meaningful look at a seminal film, with the editor of Spaceflight also adding interpretations.

A Cape Canaveral Cocktail ShakerSpace historian and lecturer Joel W Powell extracts more insightful vignettes from the pages of rocket and missile history with a description of the Ship Motion Simulator, built for Polaris but probably never used for its intended purpose! -

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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #129 on: 06/11/2015 02:11 pm »
Spaceflight Vol 57 No 07 – July 2015

Schedule Reshuffle
The failure of the Progress M-27M to successfully deliver supplies and logistics to the International Space Station has thrown the ISS schedule into the air with several options still on the table. We assess the consequences and catch up on changes to the flight manifest.

Preventing an EVA Fatality
Safety in space has always focused on the hardware and, since the 1970s, on the software written to control discrete spacecraft systems. Now, with much more known about the effects on the human body, space flight itself has intrinsic risks, as explained by Dr Bill Rowe.

ARM gets ready
With little prospect of an early use of the massive Space Launch System for dramatic steps on the road to Mars, NASA has chosen a preferred option for accessing a rock from an asteroid. But there is more to it than that and the mission may flight-prove innovative technologies essential for reaching the Red Planet.

Visions of Space – Art and the Cosmos
Chris Starr presents a colourful mix of international space artists from our own David Hardy to retired US astronauts and provides an insightful and appreciative examination of outstanding contributions to what for many is an inspiration and a goal.

Gardens of Steel
Dwayne Day took time out to visit a less frequented part of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and found rusting hulks, while in Canada a unique survivor from the early days of Atlas rocket development has already succumbed to age and neglect.

Retro – Go!
Nick Howes continues his fireside chat column and reports a conversation with Charles Deiterich, one of NASA’s elite group of flight controllers during high summer for some of NASA’s greatest achievements.

http://www.bis-space.com/eshop/products-page-2/magazines/spaceflight/spaceflight-2015/spaceflight-vol-57-no-07-july-2015/
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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #130 on: 06/27/2015 09:24 pm »
Includes my article on the Marshall Rocket Garden (which actually has been spruced up in the last couple of months) and the Canadian Atlas ICBM which everybody was worked up about here (and which everybody seems to have forgotten about).

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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #131 on: 07/06/2015 07:32 pm »
Spaceflight Vol 57 No 08 – August 2015

Moscow Celebrates the first EVA
Dr Neil Da Costa was in Moscow for the celebrations accompanying the 50th anniversary of the first space-walk and reports on the glittering array of people and pageantry which accompanied that event.

Predicting China’s Shenzhou Flights
Internationally respected analyst of Russian and Chinese space missions, Robert Christy provides an insight to the prediction of Shenzhou flights and the rationale behind date and time selection.

50 Years on Mars
Five decades after the first images from a close flyby of Mars were transmitted to Earth, Spaceflight cele-brates the achievements of several nations and reflects on the extraordinary acomplishments by fly-by space-craft, orbiters, landers and roving vehicles.

Pictures of bygone glory
Spacecraft engineer Alan Lawrie is recognised around the world as the single most knowledgeable authority on the Saturn V and its production and test regime. Here he shares hithereto hidden images of stage activity rescued from a garage in Sacramento.

Homing in on Pluto
As NASA’s New Horizons mission approaches a close fly-by of Pluto, we take a look at its origin and its significance for planetary science

Earth Defence
Italian BIS members Tommaso Pino and Matteo Perrotta report from the biannual conference on planetary defence from asteroid and near-Earth objects and find progress in preparing for the worst.

Interstellar Studies – pushing boundaries
Spaceflight goes back to i4is to report on progress with their organisation and with Project Dragonfly, a chal-lenging and difficult competition which attracted an international base of contenders.

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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #132 on: 07/07/2015 03:54 am »
By my count this is at least the fourth magazine to use the exact same Pluto artwork on the cover.

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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #133 on: 08/11/2015 06:29 am »
Spaceflight Vol 57 No 09 – September 2015

The International Space Station awaits its next major cargo delivery as both commercial suppliers make changes to their launcher programmes. Just what are the stakes here? Who pays the cost and how much is the taxpayer involved?

Europa Mission Launched
In the first of a two-part analysis of plans to launch a spacecraft to Jupiter’s moon Europa, Spaceflight looks at the scientific reasons for sending a probe to one of the solar system’s most enigmatic bodies and how the mission might evolve.

NASA astronaut assignments
Commercial contenders for sending astronauts to the International Space Station from US soil are getting ready to fly, so NASA has assigned four crewmembers to help pilot these new capsules into space. But when will these flights begin?

Treasures in the Closet
Dwayne Day goes behind the scenes at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC, to see the breadth of artifacts on display or in restoration that may one day sit front-stage for public view.

Fall of a Titan
Space historian and renowned author Joel Powell tells the picture-story of a Titan I which failed shortly after launch on a test flight in 1960.

Qualified success for LDSD
NASA is trying to find a way to get big spacecraft down to the surface of Mars. Joel Powell reports on one test which proves success is hard to come by! -

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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #134 on: 09/15/2015 01:10 pm »
Spaceflight Vol 57 No 10 – October 2015

On to Mars – But not yet!Andrew Jackson was at the 18th annual Mars Society Conference in Washington DC in mid-August where the call for a major push on getting humans to the Red Planet was as loud as ever. But this time, the US President is in the sights for a lobby push.

Europa Mission UnveiledIn the second of a two-part analysis the NASA mission to Europa is examined as participants gather to consider their plans for a mission destined to peel back the secrets of Jupiter’s remote ice world with an ocean.

The ISS – Taking Stock
A major report on the expanding cost of the International Space Station implies that the commercial contracts for resupply and crew delivery are to blame but the Editor argues that the value of the facility cannot be counted in dollars paid, claiming that it is vital for future exploration.

Cities at Night
As winter falls, the nights are getting lighter. At least that’s the view from space as light pollution from LEDs can be seen from space, dazzling drivers and pilots and blocking out the night sky for astronomers.

Honour to the Fallen Astronauts
Rick Mulheirn and Danny Van Hoecke tell the story of the commemorative figurine crafted by Paul Van Hoeydonck, left on the surface of the Moon by Apollo 15 Commander David Scott and of the misfortune that befell a noble idea

Eileen Collins wows Yorkshire audiences
Rick Mulheirn reports on the visit to Pontefract by astronaut Eileen Collins and how she attracted interest and high regard as a pilot and as a person. -

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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #135 on: 10/14/2015 07:19 am »
Spaceflight Vol 57 No 11 – November 2015

 The MartianSpaceflight has worked with Fox Film to bring you a preview introduction to the new space movie from Andrew Weir’s book about an astronaut stranded on Mars -

Soyuz 23 – a cascade of wrongsGeorge Spiteri gives us a look back at an early Soviet Soyuz flight to the Salyut 5 space station in which just about everything appeared to go wrong – from the beginning.

Remembering Explorer 29Pat Norris provides a first-hand account of a very special, but largely unknown, programme to launch an early geodesic survey programme using an Explorer-class satellite, recalling its objective and its accomplishments.

Searching for ETGeoff Carter reflects on whether we are all alone in the Universe and whether we are even looking in the right place for life elsewhere in the solar system and beyond, finding a chilling conclusion from an examination of the evolution of life on Earth.

Venus ExpressTen years after the launch of the European Space Agency’s Venus Express, new findings are casting light upon a cloud-shrouded planet, Earth’s sister twin which may not be as dissimilar as we thought.


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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #136 on: 10/26/2015 09:42 pm »
For those interested : most of the articles on Soviet/Russian space history that I've written over the years for British Interplanetary Society publications (Spaceflight, JBIS, Space Chronicle, The ISS : From Imagination to Reality) are now available for download here :

http://www.bis-space.com/belgium/sample-page/bis-magazine-texts-written-by-belgians/contributions-by-bart-hendrickx/

They're on the website of the Belgian branch of the BIS that we set up last year. The website is under construction, so it's still looking pretty crude.



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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #137 on: 11/07/2015 09:01 am »
Spaceflight Vol 57 No 12 – December 2015

COSMONAUTS: Birth of the Space AgeVix Southgate took a wander down to the Science Museum to check out the new exhibition of Soviet space hardware and came back more than a little impressed with what she found.

Tereshkova’s unseen sister
Tony Quine has a habit of rooting out previously untold stories about Soviet and Russian space affairs. He has been at it again and shares the fascinating story behind the woman selected to carry out physiological research prior to Valentina Tereshkova’s historic flight.

Aiming High
Chris McIntosh, CEO of ViaSat UK shares his thoughts about Britain and the space programme and comes out with a very positive view and a few recommendations of his own in this exclusive feature.

Countdown to Principia
Nick Spall caught up with Tim Peake as he nears his historic mission to the International Space Station, Britain’s second astronaut and its first flying as a representative of the European Space Agency.

 THE MARTIAN – A love letter to scienceSpaceflight takes a look behind the scenes of the latest space film, hailed by NASA as a great inspiration for the effort to get humans to the Red Planet, and finds out what it takes a make a big screen movie of this kind.

Apollo astronauts return to Iceland
It was just one place they came to learn geology before going to the Moon but Apollo astronauts have a special regard for the hospitality and sheer ruggedness of this island in the Atlantic Ocean, as Ken MacTaggart reports. -

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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
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Re: Spaceflight Magazine
« Reply #139 on: 01/19/2016 02:24 pm »
Spaceflight Vol 58 No 02 – February 2016

A Cygnus takes flight
The US logistical supply chain to the International Space Station is back on track, courtesy of an Atlas launch vehicle.

Planning for the Unthinkable
Timothy Braithwaite and astronaut Robert Thirsk explore the product of their work to make space flight safer, preparing for contingencies and anticipating unpredictable flaws.

Armstrong’s Moon Cardiac Scare
Dr William Rowe explains the results of his work on potential cardiac threats to human performance in the lunar environment, with alarming conclusions about Apollo 11.

Orion gets a makeover
The Editor takes a look at Orion modifications to reduce work load and improve performance. Plus, we reveal the trajectory for the next unmanned mission.

European Service Module on its way
David Todd reports on developments with the ESM for the next Orion flight in 2018 and speculates on the importance of this work to Europe’s space industry.

SLS – A Giant Rocket for big jobs
With significant milestones now being reached on the Space Launch System, David Todd reports on growing interest in possible missions.

Flying Machines in Naked Glory
Dwayne Day took his camera along to the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC, and caught some iconic hardware in the process of restoration.

http://www.bis-space.com/eshop/products-page-2/magazines/spaceflight/spaceflight-2016/spaceflight-vol-58-no-02-february-2016/
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