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...
October 2017
Colouring our view of the oceans
...-time critical timeliness. OLCI’s observations of phytoplankton will provide essential information for understanding the global carbon cycle and tracking climate variability and change With an ocean of data easily accessible for free, scientists and...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
...to form new stars, hence closing and starting the cycle again. The cooling down of hot nucleosynthesis ejecta and ...e-ASTROGAM will be on hand to fill this gap and study the cycle. And there’s more e-ASTROGAM will also enable a detailed spectro-imaging...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
...create the lakes observed currently in the north, is one of the most compelling pieces of evidence in support of a ‘methanological’ cycle on Titan But it is not just methane that poses a conundrum, the origin of Titan’s atmosphere as a whole has been...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
...the mid-1980s (as the BAe Hotol), using pre-cooler cycle air-breathing engines to achieve a reusable single-stage-to-orbit ...an invention of Alan Bond, who first outlined the basic cycle concept in 1972. The heating of the hydrogen propellant is ...
