November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... public funding towards further space exploration, the US Congress made the International Space Station (ISS) a national lab. SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft approaches the orbiting Space Station carrying payloads sponsored by the ISS...
November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
... getting up after having fallen over on the Moon during an Apollo 16 moonwalk in 1972 (Figure 2a), and an imaginary accident in a lab on Mars in which the crew member loses one of his dental restorations, suffers severe tooth pain and...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... Sun. With Prof Justin Kasper of the University of Michigan leading the science, and the Space Dynamics Lab at Utah State designing the spacecraft, JPL has proposed the SunRISE mission to NASA. The SunRISE mission...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
...: high resolution means large imaging instruments. Integration of an optical instrument on AstroBus-S platform. Planet, (formerly Planet Labs) has put into orbit nearly 150 cubesats with GSDs of between 3 and 5 m. While modest in terms of pure...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
... Earth. Aurore Hutzler in front of an X-ray diffractometer inside JAXA’s Hayabusareturned sample curation facility in Japan. The lab coat (a class 1,000 gown) is specifically designed to reduce contamination from workers. Considering the Mars sample...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... space infrastructure and services. Space engineering faculty at the University of New South Wales building a satellite in their lab. The country’s relationship with the United States, although close, does not necessarily provide everything Australia...
