August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... InSight is clearly the main attraction of this mission, the expedition to Mars is also serving another purpose - a technology demonstration of two mini-spacecraft called MarCO A and MarCO B, or just MarCO for short. Each craft is six CubeSats...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
...on the ISS from 2005 to 2010. The Canadian firm Macdonald Dettwiler & Associates provided the Orbital Express Demonstration Manipulator System which conducted autonomous operations on orbit in 2007. Significant work is also underway in China on space...
August 2020
Opportunities for young people in the space sector
... include the WISE Campaign’s People Like Me: space sector careers pack, which provides educators with resources to demonstrate to girls and young women that opportunities in the space sector are available to them as well. It is important that...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
...100 hours of operation and thrust efficiencies of 62 percent - comparable with currently flying propulsion systems. SX3 has demonstrated several breakthrough features, such as the use of hollow cathodes, high voltage and low current operational modes...
March 2021
Eyes on the prize
... Debris Prize would reward the creation and demonstration of technologies that remove space junk and failed... Space Manufacturing Prize would reward an innovative company that demonstrates the manufacture of a product in the microgravity environment of...
May 2021
Taking quantum into space
... networks around the world. Quantum repeaters remain a potential solution, but in practise, they have never been demonstrated. However, recently scientists have figured out that space could be used as an enabler to augment and expand existing...
