How the ESA is Engineering the Future of Space Travel

Following on from my last post on the ARIEL mission, I wanted to do a deeper dive on the European Space Agency’s future technology developments for space. This post focuses on the Directorate for Space Transportation, and the ways the the ESA is looking to bring new technologies into

ARIEL: Unveiling the Secrets of Distant Worlds

Earlier last month, the European Space Agency unveiled their Young Graduate Trainee Scheme for another year: a host of opportunities for aspiring students and young professionals, to spend time working at the agency for a year, on some of their various projects. This post is about one of those projects

What Am I Doing to Become an Astronaut?

Since my last post about the core requirements for becoming an astronaut, a thought that's crossed my mind several times a day has been 'what am I actually doing to chase this dream?' Seeing and hearing of the work of people like Alyssa Carson, who is

What Does It Take to Become an Astronaut?

2024 is well under way, I just had my birthday a few days ago and I’m more excited than ever to continue chasing this goal of becoming an astronaut and seeing where it might lead. A massive struggle I’ve had on my journey so far is figuring out

Trajectory for 2025

Giving myself a chance to reflect on 2023 in my last post really motivated me to keep writing. It gave me a sense of satisfaction at the progress I’d made compared to previous years when I hadn’t set any resolutions, or was too paralysed to start. This post

Launching into 2024

It feels like a blur since the last few months have gone by, and I’ve posted on here. As I write this, it’s 11:55pm on the 31st of December, and 2023 is already at an end! This year brought so many new experiences and lessons for me,

Feeling Unmotivated: 6 Tips to Break out of a Slump

When I originally started this blog, I treated it a lot like a journal for my life at university. And whenever I explain it to people nowadays in an effort to tell them about my journey to becoming more of a ‘content creator’ I go back to the time that

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9 Lessons Every Young Engineer Needs to Hear

Imagine if you could sit in a room with the likes of Nikola Tesla, the Wright brothers, or Da Vinci. Absorb their experiences, extract their wisdom on what it takes to be a great engineer. In this post, I’m going to share 9 lessons from 9 of the most

Space Dreams and Summer Plans

Hi - it's been some time, hasn't it? My last post was back in April and here we are in July. I noticed there are quite a few new members here since my last update, so first off, welcome to the fold. I should probably explain

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The Royal Academy of Engineering’s Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2023!

Diversity and Inclusion is something that I’ve come to have a larger focus on in engineering as I’ve gotten older, realising the privileges that I had, and that a lot of people don’t get, as they’re entering into the field, even from a very young age.

A Life Update

If you're interested in watching this blog post rather than reading it, here's the YouTube video! This post is an about my own life, my time at university since my last post, and a chance to reflect on my work with YouTube, developing consistency on my

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The Path to Leadership

The last few weeks have been pretty hectic for me. Aside from the fact that semester 1 exams rolled around, and I was preparing to pass a whopping 10 different exams (4 now, thankfully!) I finally resolved a promise that I'd made to myself more than a year

Birthday Reflections

Today is my 22nd birthday. Another year of feeling a little more like an adult - learning, doing and experiencing what life has to offer. I like to reflect and look back on what the year’s been like: soak in all of the amazing people and experiences, and take

The Mistake of Missing the Map

This article came about from a comment I received on one of my posts, which talked about the mistakes I've made in goalsetting and how I avoid them now. Starting the new year off early, a lot of us do our best to set targets for the year

A Year in Review

As I’m writing this, there are just under 5 hours left to go before the new year. A great time to reflect, look back and reminisce on the big wins and challenges this year. This post is a summary of my year, and a chance for you to ask

From Go-Giver to Mo-Giver: Lessons From Entrepreneuring

The more I've learned on this journey of blogging, exploring the internet and trying out cool new ways of solving problems in the world, the more I've realised just how much it matters to give back in a tangible way. Not just in the sense that

30 Insights from 30 Days of Blogging - Part 2

Writing for 30 days taught me more than I ever thought I would learn before I tried it. This is the second post of a two part series, explaining the insights I gathered from each day of blogging, and how it's improved my life - in everything from

30 Insights from 30 Days of Blogging - Part 1

Today marks the 31st article since the start of the Just Hit Post Challenge. And whilst it did end up carrying over for much longer than 30 days, I couldn't be happier at the progress I've made in that time. So I'm writing this

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Faith in the Workplace: A Muslim Engineer's Perspective (JHP Day 30)

As a Muslim born and raised in the UK, the relationship between my faith and my work has always been quite disconnected. Since I was young, the sorts of conversations that I'd have at school would be vastly different to those at home, and so I learnt very

Flying High and Falling Hard (JHP Day 29)

I figured it’s been too long since I’ve blogged, so here I am, back at it again, on what looks like Day 29 of a series that’s still going long after the start date 😄 In all honesty, I feel I would be doing even more of an

What Would You Do If Money Was No Object? (JHP Day 28)

Picture this: After a long, tiring day, you make those final few steps towards your bed. Winding down for the night, anticipating the warmth of your duvet, the calm of an unconscious mind - yearning for a good night’s sleep. But just before you lie down, you notice a

The Return (JHP Day 27)

So, if you were keeping up with my blogging progress in recent days, you will have come to an unfortunate truth: I took a break from blogging only a few days before I was meant to finish my 30 day challenge. Very scandalous, I know - but I didn’t

Trusting Your Path (JHP Day 26)

This will be a quick one - a recap of the second day of my trip to London, and exploring Space Comm Expo 2022. After a long walk to the exhibition centre in torrential rain, I reached the conference, scanned in, and set about listening to some of the keynote

The Value of Networking (JHP Day 25)

Today was probably the busiest day I've had in a very long time. What started out as a suggestion among friends to go to two of the biggest aerospace conferences in the UK, turned out to be a 2 day, multi-vehicle adventure down to the south of England,

The Side Hustle Tsunami (JHP Day 24)

Quite a lot of the discussions that I’ve had on this blog so far have related to branding, side projects and the like - it’s been a personal interest of mine in the last year, just to experiment with ways of finding new hobbies that I enjoy, and