I mean, how I got involved in space engineering. As a child, I dreamed of becoming an astronaut and exploring space. It seemed that the only way to achieve this dream was to design and build my own rocket. With a completed design (ha!), I applied to a couple of companies for sponsorship – Castrol …
As I wrote in my post about ThumbSat, my friends on Dassault Systèmes’ Passion for Innovation programme asked me to help out with another of their projects created by the amazing French artist, Anilore Banon. Anilore’s Vitae Project is going to put a sculpture on the moon – why not?! Not only does Anilore want to …
Sometimes, great ideas seem to just appear from nowhere and in isolation, but that’s rarely the case. To borrow a phrase that Sir Isaac Newton himself borrowed from others: “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” The story of ThumbSat is actually a collection of fascinating interlinked stories, …
Welcome! This is a special little space mission that is very dear to me. For those who have already read this, who are just interested in progress – scroll down to the end of this post 5…4…3…2…1…Lift off! It’s incredibly exciting to watch the countdown of a rocket launch that is sending something you are …
I never intended to get into the radio business. However, as with many things in my life, a need to find something just right for my purposes drove me to create something. I wanted to build tiny satellites to make it simple, reliable and cheap for me and others to carry out experiments in space. …
This one neatly encompasses my passion for space engineering and treasure hunting! Mojo Spaceman’s “edge-of-space” flight was an experiment with a “faster, cheaper, better” way to deploy and recover payloads from the stratosphere, in excess of 100,000 feet altitude. It was also a lot of fun! We needed a video test subject for this …