On 15 December the European Parliament approved a Commission proposal for making 2021 European Year of Rail to promote a green and safe means of transport. Transport accounts for 25% of greenhouse gas emissions. Railway transport, however, is responsible for…
Let’s talk about GNC: Guidance, Navigation and Control. What is a GNC system? Which is its applicability spectrum within space missions? GNC means “Guidance”, “Navigation” and “Control”. The strict sequential order would be: 1) the Navigation (the part of the…
“May you live in interesting times” is the backhanded compliment of an old Chinese curse. The financial sector has certainly lived through interesting times lately . . . not so much because of the COVID pandemic, which certainly doesn’t help,…
Last November Netflix successfully premiered the movie “The Irishman”, produced and directed by Martin Scorsese and based on Charles Brandt’s biography of Frank Sheeran called “I heard you paint houses”. A star-studded cast tells Sheeran’s story. Sheeran, played by Robert…
On the morning of 4 November rumors began to run about a ransomware attack that had hit several Spanish firms. It seemed to be a case of déjà vu at first; only a couple of years previously, after…