January 2023
Producing food in space
... their trip. This is the minimum amount and it excludes the mass of the water required. Since the expeditions could well be longer, space travellers will have to rely on having the means to grow food and process...
September 2023
Satellite manufacturing - building to size, speed and security
... maintain a reliable resource for the space industry. Speed was another question: how will we facilitate and expedite satellite output and enhance productivity? In addition to skilled labour, Terran Orbital has implemented robotic assembly automation...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... have the political skills, or indeed the patience, to pull a divided United States together to achieve major Mars expeditions - or even to beat China in a return to the Moon. If China and the West are indeed racing to the Moon...
18 November 2015
Elon Musk's SpaceX may partner with the U.S. government
.... According to company president Gwynne Shotwell, although government-run missions are usually much costlier than private expeditions, SpaceX would still be able to carry out government-sponsored launches for under $100 million (compared to $160...
09 April 2016
Flawless launch for SpaceX Dragon
... dozens of the more than 250 science and research investigations taking place on the space station during Expeditions 47 and 48. "The cargo will allow investigators to use microgravity conditions to test the viability of expandable space habitats...
27 June 2017
New Roll-Out Solar Array tested at the ISS
... power levels, and could also be used on future planetary missions. Brian Spence, president of DSS envisages that expeditions around Mars for example could benefit by deploying solar array and then retracting them for point...
