September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... the World Bank). It can be hard to break the cycle of financial exclusion, especially for those living in remote and rural...tackle the problems that these people face and break the cycle. The low mass and high capabilities of nanosatellites make them...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... to create them through sense-giving and sense-making cycles allows them to curate a rich set of interactions... depending on the mood or if we want to replicate solar cycles. These types of environmental colour adjustments are already used on airplanes...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
... be quite close to the cost price. In the French example, the margin is entirely used in the maintenance (50 cycles per flight), amortization of the aircraft (over 20 years), up to 35 percent in contribution to research campaigns and to offset the...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
...gravity, dust mitigation, temperature extremes, diurnal cycle, and atmospheric conditions. Checklist of space ... organic materials through different processes. At the end of the cycle, fertiliser for the greenhouses will be produced in order to make...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
...with age. Embryos are most sensitive because the cell cycle is extremely fast – about eight hours in early embryo-genesis... – whilst in adulthood you have a typical cell cycle of about 24 hours (ICRP, 1990). DNA damage is currently the...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... for aluminium (and our other material choices) to remain in stasis indefinitely. Gamma rays, light exposure and cycling temperatures may ultimately have some effect on material performance after many tens of thousands of years; however, by our...
