October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
... airlock of the Salyut orbital station. The Japanese built a facility for deploying micro-satellites from their Kibo module on the International Space Station, now widely used, while China had followed suit with its...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
... Variable-g Platform, a biology research device that can generate artificial gravity inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module. For many people who envision a Martian city, the entire project is wrapped in human aspiration...
06 July 2016
The next trio of intrepid explorers head to the ISS
... in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) – the largest single module attached to the ISS – that is also known as Kibo. Although Wednesday’s flight will be the first orbital mission for Rubins and Onishi, Ivanishin on the other...
