August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
... to date is the Dream Chaser® spacecraft, a spaceplane selected by NASA for cargo resupply and return services to the International Space Station (ISS) starting in late 2020 under the CRS-2 contract. The Dream Chaser is part of a new...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... description of the MARE payload and its implications for enabling future human space exploration. While astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), at an altitude of about 400 km, are beyond the radiation protection of Earth’s atmosphere...
05 September 2018
Soyuz leak investigations focus on human error
... leak in a Soyuz return spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) have been stepped up as it was revealed this... might do such a thing given the obvious danger to the Space Station and its crew. “The theory one about a meteorite impact...
04 November 2022
NASA’s climate change mineral dust detector
Critical elements of a new instrument attached to the International Space Station (ISS) this summer, and designed to examine the chemical composition of atmospheric mineral dust, is powered by hardware from high-...
June 2021
The coolest experiment on the ISS
... applications of CAL’s research. The Cold Atom Laboratory is a facility on the International Space Station (ISS) which utilises the unique microgravity environment in space. In July 2018, scientists used the lab to produce Bose-Einstein condensate...
October 2025
The law as a last line of defence when space debris hit home
... mount batteries to an exposed cargo pallet. The pallet was part of a 2600 kg payload released from the International Space Station (ISS) on 11 March 2021, following the delivery and replacement of new batteries, with the expectation that the payload...
