Rocket science is thought to be hard because the maths of orbital mechanics gets in the way. This talk skips over the maths and looks at orbits, how spacecraft travel between planets and how they can park at Lagrange points.
Annual General Meeting
This is a great event for members to get together and a chance to enjoy relatively dark skies with an opportunity to see the Milky Way. Details on how to book your place will be sent via email.
Fictions involving catastrophic cosmic explosions such as novae or supernovae range from narratives of a heroic, constructive drive outwards into the Universe to depressing and destructive apocalyptic fictions which posit the destruction of human culture and perhaps humanity itself. SF case studies nonetheless represent a rare engagement of popular culture with the details of stellar … Continue reading October 19 @ 8:00 pm - Prof Elizabeth Stanway – Cosmic Catastrophes