Cassini – The Grand Finale 2: Big science
\nIn the second of a three-part series covering the end of the historic\u00a0Cassini mission to Saturn and the deployment of the Huygens probe\u00a0to Titan, Spaceflight looks at the people who made it happen, how they\u00a0forged a way of life and what the end of this mission means to them.<\/p>\n
Elon Musk\u2019s BFR
\nHaving achieved success with its Falcon 9 rocket family, SpaceX is\u00a0looking to junk it and develop a new launch system, sustainable in the\u00a0short term and capable of going to Mars.<\/p>\n
Mars Society votes for the Moon
\nAndrew Jackson reviews thoughts from the 20th Annual Convention and\u00a0brings news that the Mars Society is inclined to support lunar landings\u00a0as technology demonstration of the capabilities required to put humans\u00a0on Mars.<\/p>\n
Hopping around on Pluto
\nWith excitement showing little sign of waning in the aftermath of the\u00a0New Horizons fly-by of Pluto, proposals envisage orbiters and landers to\u00a0following in the wake of this pioneer to the Kuiper Belt.<\/p>\n
Base Camp \u2013 a terminus for Mars
\nLockheed Martin has developed an architecture for Mars exploration\u00a0involving all the essential elements embraced by NASA but with a radical\u00a0approach to reaching the surface.<\/p>\n
Crash-test Atlases
\nHistorian Joel Powell digs out more hidden gems from the archives\u00a0and discovered when a Ford Galaxy crashed into an Atlas rocket and\u00a0survived!<\/p>\n
Regular Features<\/strong><\/p>\n News Analysis \u2013 We\u2019re Going Back! US announces return to the Moon<\/p>\n A Letter from the Editor<\/p>\n Briefing notes \u2013 news shorts from around the world<\/p>\n ISS Report \u2013 9 September – 10 October 2017<\/p>\n Satellite Digest \u2013 539 September 2017<\/p>\n Correspondence<\/p>\n Off the shelf<\/p>\n Society News \u2013 Charlie Duke in Milton Keynes \u2013 Joint WSW event in Bath \u2013 Birthday visitors<\/p>\n What\u2019s On<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1415,"template":"","meta":{"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"pwb-brand":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[86],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1414","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-2017-spaceflight","product_shipping_class-magazine","first","instock","purchasable","product-type-variable","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brands":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pwb-brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pwb-brand?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}