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...
August 2020
Opportunities for young people in the space sector
...-Ecological Life Support System Alternative) project to develop closed-loop life support for future deep-space expeditions. Giant leaps for the future Large parts of the sector (on Earth and in space) are heavily reliant...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... using drag sails, solar sails, or some inflatable structure that increases the overall drag on the spacecraft, expediting the gradual decay of spacecraft orbit. For active debris removal (ADR) methods, on the other hand, the...
