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...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
...John McCain who serves as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. “For decades, the U.S. military has assumed that ...a mission to Mars, such as the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a program to send astronauts to visit an asteroid by the...
12 December 2017
Trump signs Space Policy Directive 1
... Planet with an interim project that included the controversial Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). Like the ill-fated programmes commissioned before it, ARM too was disbanded when Trump became President. Perhaps poignantly, the signing of the...
03 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx officially arrives at Bennu today
... asteroid itself, and exactly whereabouts OSIRIS-REx’s extendable sampling arm will pluck this material from will be decided by the survey. ...During the sampling procedure, the arm will release a burst of nitrogen gas as it ...
12 May 2021
ESA signs contract with Swiss agency to clean space debris
...grappling the washing machine-sized payload adapter (with a four-armed claw), decelerating it down to the low Earth orbit and allowing ...the debris and the arm to burn during re-entry. "Our 'tow truck' design will ...
