Archive for August, 2009

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-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 is adjusted so that it will make a fairly close... »