February 2021
The Space Monuments Men
... I can tell you now the amount of work involved is staggering, and the genius of the Lundeen brothers, master sculptor Joey Bainer and their team, was an education and then some. When the clay models...
February 2021
Why flat panel antennas remain a challenge
... come with reducing the antenna size, of course. It seems that reducing antenna size has been harder to master than manufacturers first thought. Antennas that come close on one element are generally far out on the...
April 2021
Making space part of the everyday European agenda
... if European companies can hire the best young engineers to realise it. About the interviewee Josef Aschbacher obtained a Master’s and a Doctoral Degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Innsbruck before becoming a Research Scientist at the...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... all the problems of living in a small-scale, closed-cycle ecology, organising their environmentally stressed society and mastering highly efficient methods of local manufacturing and recycling. But the latter set of problems are not specific...
May 2021
In-situ propellant design for Mars ascent vehicles
... rocket motor [Gelain, R., ‘CFD Simulations of Self-Pressurized Nitrous Oxide Hybrid Rocket Motors’, University of Padova, Master Thesis, 2016 – 2017 Semester]. Why hybrid propulsion? Chemical rocket propulsion systems are classified as solid, liquid...
June 2021
How time perception as a spaceflight stress indicator
...’ projects as well as in isolation experiments organised by IBMP. She is also a lecturer for Moscow State University’s Space Psychology Master’s programme.
