Christmas Space Crossword 2021 Courtesy: Mark Williamson (Space Technology Consultant) with thanks to David Todd
The first correct solution to this crossword we receive – email a copy to info@seradata.com – will win a £50 Amazon voucher.
Across
1 – Abbreviation for treatment of data aboard a satellite (3)
3 – Attractive quantity (4)
5 – Neil Armstrong took a small one (4)
9 – Seventh in a series of US weather satellites (4-1)
10 – First privately-owned comsat (7)
11 – Remote participation or control at a distance (e.g. using virtual reality technology) (12)
14 –‘Universal’ name for Russian/Soviet satellites (6)
15 – Several of 19 down (6)
18 – Device to get signals in step (e.g. in phased-arrays) (5-7)
21 – Name for early deep space probes (7)
22 – Propellant measure (European spelling) (5)
23 – Reliability concept for ‘average time to lack-of-success’ (abbreviation) (4)
24 – Rapid streams of fluid emanating from nozzles (4)
25 – Acronym for read/write chips or jet propulsion using compression without turbomachinery (3)
Down
1 – Multi-directional antenna (4)
2 – Wanderers of the solar system (7)
3 – Magnetic field measurer (on spacecraft) (12)
4 – Apollo Moon rocket (6)
6 – Huygens landed on this moon (5)
7 – Early design assessment in an industrial process (abbreviation) (3)
8 – Used to reduce unwanted motion of propellants during launch (5-7)
12 – Half of geostationary longitudes are this side of Greenwich (4)
13 – Acronym seen on Soviet spacecraft and helmets (4)
16 – A satellite does this in reaction to atmospheric drag (7)
17 – Solar array boost to spacecraft battery (6)
19 – Undesired pre-launch command (5)
20 – Formed by antenna for radio signals (4)
21 – Name for vintage US transfer stage (acronym) (3)
The solution image below is from David Wade, leading space underwriter of the Astrium Space Insurance Consortium. But actually he was beaten (by 37 minutes) to the prize – a £50 Amazon voucher – by Geoff Richards, compiler of the Satellite Digest report in the British Interplanetary Society’s Spaceflight magazine. Embarrasingly Seradata sponsors this column but we did not help Geoff with the clues (honest!). So it is congratulations to him – a true Space Cadet. Meanwhile David gets our second prize: our very best wishes! Here is the solution to the Crossword.
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Space Crossword Solution (Dec 2021)
