June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... SpaceX will be offering in 2020. And this is something that nobody can know for sure. If SpaceX cannot master the technology required for reusable rockets, then other providers will have a fighting chance. If it does, almost...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... the door to a future in which micro satellites could attempt tasks too risky for standard spacecraft. Mastering the maintenance of communications and rendezvous operations between separate spacecraft in interplanetary space will be essential for...
October 2015
From the kitchen… to the stars?
... that have already been established. Finally, both the production and transportation of LNG have long been mastered. However, there are some trade-offs. Although the density of LNG is six times higher than that...
February 2016
Danish Surprise for ISS Crew
... for coffee. “The sweets were designed with a dear friend of mine, who’s actually a world class chocolate master,” recalls Schmidt. “We came up with this idea to do a space rock because we wanted it to look like something from space...
March 2016
Multi-planet Civilizations in Popular Culture
...number of allegorical interpretations, but perhaps the chief meaning of its destruction is relayed in the famous quote by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, ‘I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... mountains really look like in profile. His 1937 book Sur les Autres Mondes (On Other Worlds) is a classic. Master of space art The best-known space artist from the forties and fifties was the American...
