August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... of the data gathered so far comes from collecting ML items along coastal monitoring sites and from rare expeditions with boats, mainly in the subtropical gyres of the northern hemisphere. There is little or no data from the higher...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
Highly sophisticated materials and engineering are crucial for the success of missions for space exploration and settlement. Here, Tommaso Ghidini, head of the Structures, Mechanisms and Materials Division of the European Space Agency (ESA) guides ...
July 2019
Next steps in human space exploration
...will succeed. George Whitesides You have to be an optimist to be in the space business, so I think by that point we will have expeditions to Mars as well as potentially some kind of scientific Moon base and that’s an exciting future that I think will...
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...
