Category Space

Return to the Floor: SpaceComm Expo ’23

After a longer-than-lockdown hiatus from expos, meetings, events, I returned to SpaceComm Expo this week wearing my Goonhilly Earth Station hat. And wow the sector has changed: people are younger, there are twice as many of them, about 20% more…

Struggling with Reporting of EDM’s last moments

This is reposted from LinkedIn, and is honestly not a rant. It’s not been easy not commenting about the Exomars precursor EDM mission, Schiaparelli. Especially when many diverse media reports claimed it would have been the first successful European landing…

Selling an Idea: A Quick Tour through Space…

…related ideas, projects, and approaches. This is an invited talk at Downstream@DOCK – Leicester’s space sector business incubator programme co-funded by the UK Space Agency. Ed will be talking through the wide range of ‘exploratory’ (polite word for ‘perhaps crazy’)…