July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... has been adjusted to new trajectories from Guiana, the main onboard adaptation consisted of the introduction of a safety device compliant with the doctrine implemented by French authorities to ensure the safety of the inhabited areas, in case the...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
.... The 1970s also included several space missions in which Poland participated - by 1999 a total of 60 Polish instruments and devices had been used in outer space for conducting physics experiments, among others. In 1978 the Polish astronaut...
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 ...
