September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
... are becoming an essential part of the overall communication system, together with ground networks and ubiquitous smart devices, from smartphones to the emerging ‘internet of things’. In the decade ahead, a new generation of launchers will enter...
January 2017
Israeli students inspired by nano-satellite projects
... its payload (multi-Needle Langmuir Probe) deployed. The information Duchifat-1 receives is sent by mobile radio communicators, devices that don’t need a phone signal and, due to that trait, can be used to help save travellers who...
September 2017
Spaceflight studies support geriatric health on Earth
... to ensure optimal health. Pedersen and colleagues (2016) recently reported that since the advanced resistive exercise device (ARED) was introduced on the International Space Station (ISS) eight years ago the resistance exercise component...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
The typical constraints of spaceflight mean that the mass, the volume, the power supply and the data feed of pieces of equipment must be kept as low as possible. Some analytical instruments routinely used in research laboratories on Earth - such as ...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... the searches to one star system at a time. Consequently, the SETI Institute is building a set of relatively low cost devices that can simultaneously search the entire night sky in a hunt for laser pulses. The rapid improvement...
November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
... to be tested on the Orion mission scheduled to orbit the Moon in late 2018. It will be attached to a ‘phantom’ torso dummy, a device used to monitor radiation absorption, and a second phantom will fly unprotected so that the comparative results can...
