October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
...1971. Chinese and Russian representatives meet at Russia’s rocket engine design bureau, Energomash. Lunar axis Russia and China could...the new CZ-9 heavy lifter, for which development of the engines is already well under way. In the meantime, Russia ...
03 September 2022
Hydrogen fuel leak scuppers second Artemis 1 launch attempt
... scheduled for 2025. UPDATE (Sunday, 4 Sept): NASA engineers are assessing two options to fix the latest problem - replace...enclosure to protect sensitive components during the repair work, engineers would not be able to test the fitting with cryogenic...
March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
... infrared spectra collected simultaneously) serve other purposes. They provide some early characterisations of the alien world so engineers and scientists can finalise sensor parameters to be used for the many subsequent observations. They are also...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... Denmark have taken on this challenge in project CosmoCrops. Inspired by a project in 2015 called SpaceMoss, which genetically engineered moss to survive the harsh temperatures on Mars, the 2016 team decided to work with single celled organisms ...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... exploration of the cosmos? My personal opinion is that many answers are to be found outside the worlds of business and engineering: from philosophy and ethics to various forms of the arts, including but not limited to science-fiction. We have...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
..., enabling high-performance missions on larger CubeSats and even microsatellites. The latest payload developed under this engineering philosophy is the Chameleon imager. By sharing a similarly designed image plane as the Gecko, but mated with more...
