January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
.... In 2022, China successfully completed the deployment of its own space station called Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) which, unlike the NASA-led International Space Station (ISS), is entirely built and run by China. It is expected to last 10 years...
May 2024
Beyond Earth’s magnetic field
The evolution of living organisms took place under the conditions of Earth’s magnetic field, and the International Space Station (ISS) is in low Earth orbit, where cosmonauts and astronauts are protected by Earth’s magnetosphere. However, the ...
March 2026
Humanity – the potential of space
... abundance, and open the Solar System. The Space Shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS) were not, in themselves, our purpose. That comes later. The Space Shuttle and the ISS provided early opportunities to explore commercial applications...
April 2026
Spaceflight and the radiation problem
... same amount of radiation experienced on the surface of the planet Earth in a year. Most astronauts only stay on the International Space Station (ISS) for about six months, although a handful have served for a full year. It is not an easy experience...
May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
... early 1960s, though they did fly aboard Skylab III. Martha collects rocks. Today’s space food eaten aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shares more similarities with military Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), vacuum sealed plastic pouches...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
...ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has demonstrated centimetre-scale accuracy when docking with the International Space Station (ISS), while Sweden’s Prisma mission has demonstrated formation flying for brief periods, maintaining centimetre-level...
