March 2016
Time for European visionary goals
This April marked the 55th anniversary of the first human spaceflight into Earth orbit. Those formative decades in the middle of the 20th century saw Europe, still recovering from its recent shattering military past, building its industrial strength...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... now shifted down to Siberia and continues to head South. Modelling carried out by the Max Planck Institute in Germany in 2015 suggests that during this shift the shielding provided by the Van Allen belts will essentially...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
... against an Italian astronaut in a module that was registered to Russia, then German criminal law would be engaged and Germany would have responsibility for criminal jurisdiction. Article 22 (2) then provides for the level of offence that will...
October 2016
Project MOONWALK
... light-weight rover YEMO is based on the ASGUARD rover, both designed by DFKI Robotics Innovation Center in Bremen, Germany. YEMO can be equipped with different sets of wheels, in particular the ASGUARD star-wheels, which enable it to traverse...
November 2016
Simulating space in a bathtub
... and more researchers, both Russian and foreign, participate in the Institute of Biomedical Problems immersion experiments - DLR (Germany), Université d’Angers and Université de Cannes (France), and others. The study of other body functions and...
November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
... of the Department of Prosthodontics and Orofacial Function, Medical Centre of Dentistry, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany. References 1 Dental Treatment on Mars Research Team: Dr. Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger (Vienna University of Technology...
