Jobs in the space industry Links to jobs within the space industry Update: ESA, the European Space Agency, has recently announced that it is looking for four prople to train as astronauts, for the ISS (International Space Station. To qualify, you will need to be degree qualified in an engineering / science discipline, be aged... »
Gravity Propulsion
Gravity-Assisted In the early 1960s, a graduate student named Michael Minovitch working at JPL developed a way to use a planet’s gravitation as a method of propulsion. Gravity-assisted maneuvers work by transferring angular momentum from an orbiting planet to a passing spacecraft. A spacecraft’s trajectory... »
Chemical Propulsion
Chemical Advanced Chemical Propulsion Since we have already developed many different types of chemically-fueled propulsion systems, one might wonder why we need to advance these technologies. Historically, there has been a demand for improvements in many areas, such as safety, reduced mass, and of course increased... »
MoonLITE Mission
MoonLITE Mission The US space agency has described the MoonLITE mission to send a small probe to the Moon in 2013 as “inspirational”. The unmanned project involves the craft firing 4m-long darts called penetrators onto the lunar terrain. The devices would enable scientists to scratch beneath the... »
Nuclear Propulsion
Nuclear Thermal Radiation created by nuclear technologies is dangerous to both humans and their machines. Any use of nuclear propulsion technology would have to be accompanied by the use of extensive shielding and “hardening.” The potential advantages of nuclear propulsion over chemical methods are staggering. The... »
Authorities
Legal stuff… US AVIATION SAFETY LINKS Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Safety US NAA Link Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) EU AVIATION SAFETY LINKS European Commission (DG Energy & Transport) Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) EU NAAs Government departments responsible... »