March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
..., even though it takes longer to reach the desired orbit and enter service. Alphasat also hosts Technology Demonstration Payloads addressing various market and R&D requirements. These include a Laser Communications Terminal for high data-rate...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
... and public interest in recent years. Often referred to as 3D printing, a slew of disruptive commercial applications have already been demonstrated and many more foreseen. Now, teams around the world have been inspired to design a 3D-printed Mars...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
...square metre solar sail in deep space that successfully demonstrated deep space propulsion and navigation as it flew in...group, The Planetary Society, flew in Earth orbit their own demonstrator, LightSail-A. This was a 3U CubeSat mission that deployed ...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... leads through cis-lunar space, the proving ground for increasingly ambitious missions, in a logical progression that demonstrates capabilities in near Earth space before departure on missions of 1000 days and more. The expedition begins with...
November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
.... Computer-generated image of Reaction Engines’ facility at Westcott, Buckinghamshire, where it plans to undertake the first ground-based demonstration of its SABRE air-breathing rocket engine in 2020. About the author Mark Thomas has been Chief...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
...Projects team, led by Liberty’s Dr Kyle Landry, which quickly identified that ADBM, like many of its group, demonstrates both the qualities of antibiotics (Penicillium is a cousin) and characteristics seen in other members of the group, some of which...
