January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... ground missions in the 2020s, NASA plans to use the Block 1B vehicle to loft elements of its deep space gateway and transport system to cislunar space. In its ultimate Block 2 configuration, SLS will be capable of delivering more than...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
... characterise such systems in relevant environments such as the International Space Station or NASA’s proposed Deep Space Gateway. Below: Experimental algae monitoring equipment at the University of Colorado Boulder. Bottom: Three different varieties...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
..., whereby large, expensive satellites are replaced with fleets of easily replaced smallsats. A private plane on the ‘Gateway to Space’ apron at Spaceport America. This changing landscape posed severe challenges for the antecedent regulatory regime...
August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
... technology and applying it in other areas. One example, on which we are currently working, is NASA’s lunar orbiting platform, or gateway, for which we have contracts to work on both the cargo propulsion element and the habitat. So, when we start...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... spacecraft located close to the planned international crewed space outpost, now called the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G). For Mars, using ISRU to unlock and exploit frozen water is vital. Water ice locked up at the...
December 2018
Prosperity in the stars
...many as possible of the Earthly states”, and “real progress in getting into space, including science”. The gateway to commencing Asgardia’s economic, political and scientific activity was further opened in November after the Parliament endorsed a ...
