January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
...a whole. Therefore, it is not well understood how these potential microgravity effects permeate through an entire mammalian life cycle, or change over time through multiple generations. For this reason, the Rodent Research-1 experiment recently flown...
October 2019
Asgardia’s calendar and its role in space industrialisation strategy
... there are about 40) makes practical sense The annual cycle of the star Sirius was of particular importance in ... of the duration of the solar year. Following the correction in the cycle of 128 years of the solar tropical year, there were 31 leap years...
October 2015
Japan’s H-IIA rocket: beautiful, accurate, and on-time
.... Technologies so far planned include a more robust combustion cycle for the 1st stage engine, manufacturing with 3D printing,... start sequence is therefore simpler than a two-stage combustion cycle, as well as giving a robust response to variations in...
May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
...American experiment in the summer of 1997 planned to grow a model short-cycle plant, Brassica rapa L. in two generations. And for the first ...four full consecutive in-flight ‘seed to seed’ cycles. Genetic analysis gave serious weight to the hypothesis ...
10 May 2016
When sunspots are minimal, the solar magnetic field is at a maximum, say researchers
... a considerable length of time, to fully capture and understand this trend, and to find out whether it is a transient or a real cycle, the simulation would still need to be continued further. What implications this has for understanding future lulls...
July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... modern flight control system. Scramjets can’t operate at lower speeds, and so must be paired with other propulsion cycles, such as a rocket or a high-speed gas turbine, to carry a vehicle from ground to hypersonic flight. A hypersonic aircraft might...
