Model Making

NEAS member Terry Regan is the Chief Spacecraft Model Builder for the Institute of Interstellar Studies. He has built many incredible models which he often brings to our events at Abberton It's truly amazing the amount of detail these models have and it's safe to say that these photos don't do them justice - you have to see them in real life to fully appreciate them. Following on from his models of the Magellan, Cassini-Huygens and Galileo spacecraft, Terry Regan went on a grand tour of the Solar System and guides us through his scratchbuilt scale model of the famous Voyager spacecraft. Voyager 1 & 2 - The Grand Tour THE MISSION The planetary grand tour was an ambitious plan to send  two unmanned  probes to the outer planets of the Solar System. The idea was conceived at NASA & JPL in the 1960s when it found that all four gas giant planets could be visited using gravity assists while needing a minimal amount of propellant and...

NEAS member Terry Regan is the Chief Spacecraft Model Builder for the Institute of Interstellar Studies. He has built many incredible models which he often brings to our events at Abberton It's truly amazing the amount of detail these models have and it's safe to say that these photos don't do them justice - you have to see them in real life to fully appreciate them. Continuing on from his models of the Cassini-Huygens and Galileo spacecraft, Terry Regan this time moves on to the planet Venus and talks us through his scratch-built scale model of the Magellan spacecraft. The Spacecraft The Magellan spacecraft was the first interplanetary spacecraft to be launched by the Space Shuttle when it was carried on board the shuttle Atlantis in 1989. Atlantis released Magellan into low Earth orbit, where a solid fuel motor was then fired sending Magellan on a fifteen month cruise to Venus – arriving in August 1990. The main objectives for Magellan was to map the surface of Venus...

NEAS member Terry Regan is the Chief Spacecraft Model Builder for the Institute of Interstellar Studies. He has built many incredible models which he often brings to our events at Abberton It's truly amazing the amount of detail these models have and it's safe to say that these photos don't do them justice - you have to see them in real life to fully appreciate them. The Spacecraft The Galileo spacecraft was launched on 18th October 1989 aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis and, after a six year journey, arrived at Jupiter in December of 1995 to begin its orbital tour of the planet and its moons. Galileo spent over 14 years in service at Jupiter, providing us with high resolution data about the planet. Via a detachable probe that descended into Jupiter's atmosphere, the planet's composition was directly measured for the first time. The structure of Jupiter's magnetosphere was also mapped. Galileo discovered that Jupiter's faint ring system consists of dust from impacts on the four Jovian...