August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... solar flares, known as Coronal Mass Ejections, shoot out beams of high-energy electrons that can go out far into ... As they interact with the Sun’s magnetic field, the electron beams generate bursts of radio frequency signals. They are in a frequency ...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...A miniaturised lab known as ProSPA will analyse the material and beam back results. Positive findings could lead to new possibilities of local...Epoxy resin could be used to harden key structural load beams. Both the Moon and Mars possess caves and lava...
February 2019
A universal spaceship design concept
... support structure made of aluminium or carbon fibre beams, which form the primary structure. The degree of material hardness and... thickness of the beams should be chosen so that the construction is as lightweight...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... is underway to find ways to use directed energy beams, missile systems armed with nuclear weapons and even more... an international cooperative programme to jointly develop ‘directed energy beam’ systems designed to cope with asteroids and comets. If...
June 2022
Sunshades in space could help alleviate Earth’s climate crisis
...by its own star – Kardashev scale). This energy could be beamed to a fleet of Earth-orbiting satellites for safe relay to... O’Neill outlined in the 1970s. The power could also be beamed to the lunar surface to provide energy during the long lunar night...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... orbit (LEO) and later an inflatable structure known as BEAM (Bigelow Expandable Activity Module) that was successfully inflated on ...that the habitat module is an inflatable unit, such as the BEAM that has been tested and deployed on the ISS. The ...
