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Chronicle 2025
Space Chronicle Volume 5-2 April 2025
Contents
ESA@50: THE FORMATIVE YEARS
Tee story of how the European Space Agency was formed amidst a backdrop of political and budgetary uncertainty.
Brian Harvey
ENDING OF AN ERA
Remembering the BIS Soviet Technical Forum (later the Sino-Russian Forum), which ran for 45 years.
David J. Shayler
THE GARDEN SHED ASTRONOMER
The story of BIS member and amateur astronomer Hugh Percival Williams and his detailed map of the lunar surface.
Griffith Ingram
Space Chronicle Volume 5-1 January 2025
Contents
A STEP TOO FAR?
A former NASA historian traces the agency's stop-start approach to retrieving rock samples from Mars.
David S.F. Portree
A TITANIC ACHIEVEMENT
An insider's personal perspective of ESA's hugely successful Huygens probe and its 2005 landing on Saturn's moon, Titan.
Paolo Ferri
SPICING UP THE DATA
The story of how systems had to be put in place to ensure the safe storage, retrieval and utilisation of the ever-increasing amount of data being received from space, as told by the former manager of NASA's Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility.
Charles Acton
