Tag: Yvonne Brill

• Yvonne Brill and the technology keeping satellites in orbit

  In a certain sense, it’s easy to keep things in orbit around Earth. However, it’s hard to keep satellites in a specific orbit, which is what matters most for communicating with them and they with us, whatever task they’re designed to perform. Thanks to the work of rocket engineer Yvonne Brill in the early 1970s, […]

  Matthew R. Francis

  April 10, 2013

  Double X Science, Writing for Other Sites

  rockets, satellites, spaceflight, Yvonne Brill