SpaceProf.xyz || Malcolm Macdonald

Media & Speaking

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Bringing Space Down to Earth

Recognised in the media as Scotland's leading space expert. Providing comment to national & international, specialist & mainstream media, across written word, audio, & visual

Providing technical consultancy and supporting science & engineering communication: making it more easily accessible, especially to under-represented groups. From news to novels, to TV and radio dramas, and from science festival to international conferences.

BBC Click, 16 November 2024

Coverage of our work charting uncharted waters, and saving lives from space.

You can watch a project overview video on YouTube

BBC World News, 22 December 2023

Providing expert comment to BBC on space debris.

the below video file is 353MB: access a 30.6MB video file here

BBC Scotland, the Seven: 13 February 2023

Providing expert comment on BBC Scotland's coverage of the 2023 Chinese balloon incident.

the below video file is 320MB: access a 18.4MB video file here

BBC Radio Scotland

I joined the John Beattie show to talk about the upcoming year in space, based on my blog article Space 2020, Preview: Humans won't land on Mars in the year 2020. Listen below.
ESA's ExoMars rover ESA's ExoMars rover, Rosalind Franklin, (foreground) and Russia's stationary surface science platform, Kazachok, (background) are scheduled for launch in July 2020, arriving at Mars in March 2021. Image credit: ESA

VisitScotland: Space Legend

VisitScotland's Legends campaign in promoted Scotland as the place where ideas become legends, and as the home of innovation, supporting twelve key sectors of the economy.
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