August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... be the construction of habitats on the Moon or Mars. SpaceJustin, a humanoid upper body consisting of two Light-Weight Robot arms, two DLR-HIT Hands II, a torso and a head. serves as a development platform for human-centered telerobotics. In line...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
During his first orbital flight on the Mercury-6 spacecraft, astronaut John Glenn noticed a strange phenomenon. The spacecraft was in orbit and, when the Sun came up, he reported with great excitement that he was surrounded by thousands of small ...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
.... While commercial satellites (and to that end commercial CubeSats) were recently removed from the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) list in the US, any component with military origins (some of which seem completely benign) can...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... space environment, the vaster our database about the range of the human reaction, and the better armed we are to tackle the mission of making humanity a multi-planet species. Before the new century fades away...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... both natural and man-made threats to the planet. A Universal Robotic Battle Cosmic Platform (URBOCOP) would be an armed, unmanned space station capable of monitoring both Earth and space. It would have an onboard defensive weapon systems...
October 2016
Project MOONWALK
... YEMO for ground (left) and underwater simulations (middle). The pantograph enables ease of sampling. Its expandable arm prevents an astronaut from having to bend down (reducing the risk of falling) and offers an exchangeable scoop for...
