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...
12 April 2016
ULA teams up with Bigelow
... provider. The goal is to launch the first of two B330s in 2020 and ideally that would be attached to the International Space Station (ISS), which would require NASA's approval, said Bigelow Aerospace founder and president Robert Bigelow. "Each B330...
