September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
...on maximised capabilities and ‘gold-plated’ reliability of a single large satellite will give way to reducing overall life cycle costs and reliability of supply and schedule on a batch production basis. The way manufacturing occurs is itself evolving...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... overall quality of life. In the future, NASA human exploration missions must remain independent of the start-stop cycle of the US, or any government’s, shifting political allegiances. In the US we have witnessed many times the start of a bold space...
May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
...the 5,000 to 14,000 hours’ exposure to sunlight (depending on the orientation of samples in their trays). Thermal cycling (34,200 cycles day/night) caused thermal fatigue, delamination and peeling of certain coatings. Impacts (15,000 recorded on LDEF...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
... transit to/from the Earth and Mars in a continuous cycling system. Due to orbital speeds, arrivals and departures would ... a Space Train is that they can be configured for each cycle to fit the people, supplies and materials requirements. The Space ...
30 March 2020
Study shows astronaut urine could help build moon bases
.... Although, the urea (and naphthalene-based) samples have the lowest compressive strength after 8 freeze-thaw cycles, write the researchers in their paper, the samples also exhibited a relatively high initial compressive strength (13 megapascals...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
...), HUDEP serves as a forum to give space agencies and industry the opportunity to discuss HF topics across a project’s life cycle, and it has grown into an inter-agency community of experts. Human dependability relates directly to the fields of Human...
