May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
...made from hydrocarbons, captured carbon, and renewable fuels. Smart textiles At the 2023 Advanced Textiles Expo in Florida, USA, representatives of the German Institutes of Textile and Fibre Research Denkendorf (DITF) discussed the many possibilities...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... College London, MS in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech, and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Florida. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork at Spaceport America, worked for the commercial spaceflight industry, and...
April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
...economy. Tourism itself might even benefit if we have scheduled launches - because ‘rocket tourism’ is a phenomenon in places like Florida and French Guiana.” On the environmental side, the consortium is aware of how rocket propellants and debris can...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
... be used to lift objects to a higher graveyard orbit. This image showing the waters of the Bahamas as well as Cuba, Florida, and the US eastern seaboard was captured by LightSail 2 on 16 August 2020. The 32 m2 solar sail spacecraft used sunlight...
May 2026
Mars exploration – the nuclear option
... on experimental technologies such as the wave rotor topping cycle, currently being studied by NASA and the University of Florida. While promising, wave rotors remain complex and new for integration into space-based nuclear propulsion...
May 2026
Satellite brightness and the mitigation challenge
... these cues, hatchlings crawl toward the land instead of the sea, toward roads, predators and exhaustion. In Florida alone, hundreds of thousands become disoriented annually. With approximately 100,000 satellites projected to be launched to orbit...
