SPACE TECHNOLOGY
December 1st, 2002
BY JONATHAN THOMSON, in Newcastle, England, PHILIP FINE and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
SPACE may be Star Trek's final frontier, but in reality innovations used on rockets and satellites do not stay in orbit; they are often brought back to Earth where they have been used by auto-manufacturers to break their own technological boundaries.
Some of the most commonplace car technologies are indebted to space research spin-offs; take the airbag, for example. Dr Thomas Altmann, a technology consultant with German company MST Aerospace, which works on behalf of the ...
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