August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... lander over another band (UHF). The solar arrays on NASA’s InSight lander deployed inside a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver. This configuration is how the spacecraft will look on the surface of Mars. This is where...
August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
... learning process and generate ever more powerful models. The Space Fence space surveillance system built by Lockheed Martin for the US Air Force, due to be operational in 2019, will revolutionize SSA by detecting orbital hazards well in advance...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... STEP-2’ and ESA’s new initiatives are taking the possibilities seriously. Commercial interests like Metalysis, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Thales Alenia and SSTL are all looking at what might be possible. Planetary scientist Dr Katherine Joy...
July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
All human long-duration space missions to date have been relatively close to home. Now plans are underway to establish a Moon-orbiting platform that will act as a base for scientific research, missions to the Moon’s surface and eventually missions ...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
... trans-atmospheric transportation between LEO and Earth’s surface. NASA’s Mars InSight spacecraft in an assembly clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems. The back shell (grey cone) and heat shield (brown disc) form a protective enclosure...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... for a spaceport at Melness, near Tongue in Sutherland in the far North of Scotland, with interest from launch providers Lockheed-Martin and Orbex, although there is strong competition from sites at North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, and Unst...
