May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... responding to this interest by developing rovers with robotic arms. Getting samples back to Earth, it turns out, ...regions. In practice, we think it could work like this: a robot arm on a lander would fit a series of sample tubes, based on ...
May 2020
An ethical code for living in space
... destruction in outer space; efforts towards prevention of an ‘arms race’ in outer space; and the Planetary Protection Policy..... Settlement in space - settlers in space are a strategic arm of the Earth’s population, with all that it entails, including...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...bristles with payloads, communications antennas and a posable manipulator arm. In this case the designers have ensured that the... accuracy is confirmed when one builds a module with rotating arms that, when mated with an existing module, swing through ...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
...large spaceship around the solar system and beyond. But with the arms control provisions of the early 1960s banning nuclear weapons in space ...the solar system. However, there remains another arm of private space activity: scientific space exploration...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
...noted was a good maintenance plan and the inclusion of a robotic arm in the design, which is a feature that would limit the ...the docking port, the metallic laboratory module and the robotic arm manipulator to be launched on a single heavy lift rocket....
April 2024
Rotation in the Universe
...galaxy M61 dominates this image, framed by its winding spiral arms threaded with dark tendrils of dust. As well as the usual bright bands... of stars, the spiral arms of M61 are studded with ruby-red patches of light. Tell...
