February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
...like science fiction - but it’s reality. As human beings we can go to space and we have a destination there. It’s the International Space Station. I like to call it humanity’s outpost in space. Samantha Cristoforetti Without any doubt, it is the most...
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...
January 2021
Asgardia’s project for a new module to expand Space Station
... overview of the project and the industrial partnership arranged to deliver it. Over the past decade, the International Space Station partnership has continually addressed the future of research in - and exploitation of - low Earth orbit (LEO) beyond...
