June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... carried the first men into Earth orbit would one day be replaced by international cooperation? This was the case with regard to the International Space Station (ISS), the starting point for a real multi-national cooperation project. There...
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...
July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
... System (ECLSS) will be critical to the survival and well-being of crews. The equipment developed for the International Space Station has proved that it is suitable for more challenging exploration missions but complex systems often have undesired...
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...
