Going through a 1979 ‘LEGO ideas’ book (‘6000’), I noticed a space plane that always caught my attention, so I gave it a try to […]
Reviving the LEGO 1979 Galaxy Explorer with modern bricks
I can highlight three events that helped setting out a path for me towards becoming an aerospace engineer who now designs satellites:1. The release of […]
The unforgiving jungle of French Guiana
There I was…about to run out of fuel in the middle of the jungle. The red fuel light was on for a long time now […]
Feel free! Feel zero-g!
Hanging three feet above the ground, looking down, and not falling down, is simply a weird sensation. Today, over 25 years later, it is still […]
Jules Verne’s trajectory to the Moon: how accurate was he?
In 1865, the book ‘From the Earth to the Moon’ by Jules Verne was published. The book describes the adventures of three men: Barbicane, captain […]
Cleaning up space versus cleaning up Everest: which is harder?
Cleaning up places that you can hardly see is something that is not only a rare topic of discussion, but also an unwanted topic when […]
NASA and ESA are returning humans to the Moon, and they will orbit a saddle of a gravitational mountain.
The European Space Agency just signed a contract with Airbus to build the third European Service Module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft that will ferry the […]
How Europe is going to clean space
The European Space Agency (ESA) has addressed the need for cleaning up space for a long time now, but since formation of ESA’s Clean Space […]
Olympus Mons: Climbing the Highest Mountain in the Solar System
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to climb the highest planetary mountain in the Solar System. Located on Mars, this 25 km / […]