August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
In space research, the International Space Station (ISS) is a symbol of peaceful interational collaboration in Earth orbit, and is intended to be used intensively as a one-of-a-kind laboratory for ...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... during short-duration (around two weeks) flight experiments aboard free flying satellites, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station (ISS). Longer duration (months and years) rodent analogue reproduction experiments aboard the ISS...
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...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
...builds research and manufacturing systems into compact smart containers, called CubeLabs, installed in hubs on the International Space Station (ISS). We want to see the market develop and so, as much as possible, we try not to patent. However, at the...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
...be for NASA, moving cargo to and from the International Space Station (ISS), for which the launch window opens in late...because it needs to manoeuvre in close proximity to the International Space Station, dock, un-dock, re-enter the atmosphere and land...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... variant of it. The American systems under development are all variations on the 1960s capsule theme. While the International Space Station (ISS) is larger and more capable than the 1970s Salyuts and Skylab, it is not a step change and...
