June 2022
Patent protection for space manufacturing
... spaceships are attached to the International Space Station in April 2021, including the SpaceX Crew-1 and Crew-2 Dragons, and Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus-15 resupply ship, all from the United States, and Russia’s Progress 75 and...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... Starships to transport them there. He also asserts that, in the next 10 years, SpaceX will build 1000 reusable Dragon crew spacecraft (100 vehicles per year) at the company’s plant in Texas. SpaceX plans to send spaceships with...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
...ía. In April 2022 López-Alegría and three other Axiom astronauts (each paying $155 million) travelled on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the ISS for a 17-day mission. As a start-up, Axiom Space has established its credibility in a short period...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
... to launch from a sea-borne converted barge in the Yellow Sea, since emulated by the commercial Jielong 3 or Smart Dragon, which launched 14 satellites from there in 2022. Wenchang cut the first sod in 2023 for the new...
October 2025
What future for UK human spaceflight?
... of £150-£200 million. Axiom’s previous missions have demonstrated the viability of private ISS access using SpaceX Dragon vehicles, often crewed by veteran NASA astronauts. Peake’s background as a military test pilot and experienced space farer...
13 March 2015
Russian space agency endorses ISS until 2024
... and steering the complex away from space junk. The Boeing CST-100 and SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft could do limited reboosts of the lab’s altitude, if required, but only the Russian Progress logistics freighter...
