• Question: Have you made any important breakthroughs in space engineering

    Asked by maxapple to Adam, Alexander, Aron, Jess, Neil on 12 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Neil Bowles

      Neil Bowles answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      We all work in teams, so generally its the team that makes the breakthroughs.

      For example if our instrument on the UK TechDemoSat works as it should we will have shown that we can build a low-cost space instrument that makes useful measurements of the Earth’s environment. This could allow lots of new applications for monitoring specific details about the Earth’s climate that can be launched more quickly and cheaply than before, so we can react faster. The instrument was built by a team at Oxford and also RALSpace, where Aron and Alexander work.

    • Photo: Jessica Marshall

      Jessica Marshall answered on 14 Mar 2014:

      Not on my own, but as teams we are always trying to progress. I am working on progressing electric propulsion which should really help us to have more efficient satellites (so cheaper),

    • Photo: Aron Kisdi

      Aron Kisdi answered on 19 Mar 2014:

      Indeed we all work in teams, the SEEKER team I was part of achieved over 5 km autonomous navigation with a rover in a single day. Current rovers on Mars can only do 100-200 m in a single path.

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