October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... across the world continue to explore outer space, as demonstrated by China’s lunar sample return mission in May 2024.... additive manufacturing techniques (for example, 3D printing demonstrations on the International Space Station) have shown that...
18 December 2017
Prometheus to power future European launchers
In a deal worth €75 million, ESA and ArianeGroup signed a contract last week to develop a full-scale demonstrator of its new ultra-low cost reusable rocket engine known as Prometheus; an engine that is set to power Europe’s ...
19 August 2019
Maxar selected to build, fly first element of NASA’s Lunar Gateway
...selected by NASA to build and perform a spaceflight demonstration of the lunar Gateway’s power and propulsion element ...in designing, building and operating the spacecraft through the demonstration period. The power and propulsion element is a key ...
September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
... community art made with young people, could have a measurable and demonstrable impact on a range of social issues - the concept has never...understand what was working about the process and to demonstrate through first-hand accounts the role this type ...
October 2016
Project MOONWALK
...2016, a number of technologies and technical systems were demonstrated and tested in two Earth-analogue simulations of Extra-... pantograph tools. There is, however, neither a known demonstration of this particular concept nor knowledge of it having ...
October 2019
Electric orbit raising and space weather
...their effects on sensitive electronic components. This risk was demonstrated by a solar cell experiment on the Tacsat-4 satellite...to the harmful effects of trapped protons. Figure 1 demonstrates two previous approaches to electric orbit raising (EOR) ...
