July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... stars. Early outposts will likely be printed by machines using local resources - humans can then populate them, expediting the process of settlement. Exploring or settling? Ensuring human survival by settling space is a concept that has been...
February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
... the US Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office have been working on accelerated procedures to expedite the patents process, which can currently take several years. The reasons why the space sector...
February 2020
Opportunity knocks for UK space industry
..., technological and economic value that we can collectively bring to the UK and the international market. ISS Expedition 57 astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor mixing protein crystal samples to help scientists understand how they work. Proteins...
May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
..., Texas: he is using a VR headset to learn how to operate his spacesuit’s SAFER emergency pack. Likewise, NASA astronaut and Expedition 59 flight engineer Christina Koch (Figure 3) used a virtual reality headset for the recent ‘Vection’ study onboard...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
..., socially, peacefully and successfully we should also be living like crew members together here on Spaceship Earth. Expedition 62 Soyuz landing, Kazakhstan – February 2020 A beautiful, robust, safe, yet not so gentle return to Earth on a Soyuz...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... Aerospace won a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award in April, matched by private venture capital, to expedite deployment of artificial intelligence analytics to the US Air Force. In addition, a US$2 trillion stimulus bill included...
