It is inevitable. Spaceflight hardware tests sometimes lead to explosive results. In the most recent example, aerospace giant Lockheed Martin recently completed a successful blast test of the company’s under-scale inflatable space module. The test was conducted at the Lockheed facility in Denver, Colorado on June 14 on the same test rig used for the … Read more
The gray side of a metal test rig curves up like a bad elbow from the bottom right. It is the profile of what remains of the test bed of the historic Titan rocket. In the center of the image, a cloud of smoke rises from the ground as debris blankets the surrounding air. Two … Read more
A local and national government initiative is using the circular economy model to slowly transform under-resourced communities in Cape Town, where illegal dumping and waste accumulation is a perpetual problem, and change the relationship that children and the residents have with the waste. Called the iThemba Phakama 4Ps (People, Public, Private, Partnership) project, it incentivizes … Read more
