January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
...surpassed the US as the country with the most annual launches - in 2021 alone it launched 55 missions. Furthermore, China is conducting historic space exploration missions and is racing the US to land humans on the Moon and ultimately to build a base...
September 2023
How microorganisms survive space travel
... Levinskikh M.A., Deshevaya E.A., Sugimoto M., Alekseev V.R., Okuda T., Gusev O.A., Sychev V.N.. Planetary protection challenges in space exploration missions and ways of their resolution with account of the results of Russian exobiology experiments...
28 November 2015
NASA Set to Improve Orion's Heat Shield
...gathered by Orion on its Exploration Flight Test -1. The heat shield will be used for Orion's Exploration Mission (EM) -1, planned to take...on reentry into Earth's atmosphere. During Orion's Exploration Flight Test (EFT)-1, the heat shield experienced ...
28 September 2018
CubeRover to develop low-cost, revolutionary rover in Luxembourg
... Economy. Rather than conducting scientific research and launching spacecraft missions like other prominent agencies however, the LSA will concentrate ... can be customised for specific science and exploration missions but if you want to build your own...
10 March 2021
Russia and China agree to build joint international lunar base
... further their space ambitions, including cooperative work on the implementation of the CNSA’s "Chang'e 7" lunar polar exploration mission and Roscosmos’ Luna-26 orbiter spacecraft. The two space agencies also committed to previously announced plans...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
... + Partners As a concept, the LavaHive approach is a great example of how ISRU and 3D printing can be combined to enable exploration missions on the Martian surface. Many of the concepts, like the sintering of regolith, are already being proposed for...
