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January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... lifetime ended up being more than twice its original design-life (32 years rather than 15). However, the NASA of the 2020s is clearly intent on reinventing itself. Today, it is no longer developing ‘technical specifications’ in-house; instead, ...pez-Alegría. In April 2022 López-Alegría and three other Axiom astronauts (each paying $155 million) travelled on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the ISS for a 17-day mission. As a start-up, Axiom Space has...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
...surface. Located at 4.2 light years (40,000 billion km), Proxima Centauri b is almost an ideal destination - as far as exoplanets go. But while this distance may be small by astronomical standards, it remains utterly vast on the human scale. The... by taking advantage of the enormous gravitational pull of the Sun. But even this translates to a travel time to Proxima Centauri of over 6,000 years. Such a mission would be unlike anything ever attempted...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... the magnified brightness of the source star, shown in the top panel. WFIRST Exoplanet Microlensing Survey In Figure 1 we compare the region of orbital sensitivity of NASA’s Kepler mission and WFIRST to the orbits of planets in our solar system.... begins to bend the light from the background star, resulting in two images due to light rays that travel on either side of the foreground host (or lens) star. These images are so close together that they...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
...Kepler left off, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has begun to scan the skies with high hopes of matching, if not surpassing its predecessor by finding a treasure trove of exoplanets and perhaps landing ...large. With thousands more worlds left to uncover, NASA has already dispatched a replacement to carry on where Kepler left off. Launched in April 2018, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is designed to search for...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... of comparison is with the aviation industry. In 2019, before Covid-19 depressed international travel, some 4.4 billion air travellers accounted for the burning of 285 million tonnes of jet fuel, averaging around 65 ...and back. So, for every kilogram of kerosene used to transport a conventional air passenger on a single journey, a traveller in today’s Crew Dragon would consume about 600 kg of kerosene and a New Shepard space tourist about 4.5 kg ...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
...is stronger than steel, lighter than aluminium and boasts the conductivity of copper. NASA’s textile outreach activities NASA’s textile scientists and engineers have always collaborated with artists, fashion designers, academic ...technical textiles for specific functions that solve special challenges during planetary explorations and space travel. Parachutes, insulation blankets and even computer memory are a few applications of technical...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... However, the mission sequence is intended to be executed without any substantial increase in the current inflation-adjusted NASA human exploration budget, given a phased retirement of the ISS beginning in 2024. The key to a cost... Camp concept builds upon existing deep space technologies in development today and provides a blueprint for NASA’s Journey to Mars. This plan provides the opportunity for significant scientific discovery, can be evolved...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
...link back to the original Moon landing programme. In contrived acronym speak, that only an organisation like NASA could come up with, Artemis stands for ‘Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence, and Electrodynamics of the Moon...’s Interaction with the Sun’. NASA’s objective is to herald in a new era for space exploration and utilisation and, while it is ...
13 June 2016
NASA signs an agreement with United Arab Emirates
...exchange scientific data via joint workshops. As the first field of collaboration between the two agencies, NASA and the UAE Space Agency formalised cooperation in the exploration of Mars by signing an Implementing ...discuss potential future projects that contribute to exploring the Red Planet. Missions to our martian neighbour by NASA have recently come under scrutiny by the U.S congress who have questioned whether such a mission is even...
