January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... generate around 2500 kg of rubbish, garbage, trash or waste, whatever term you prefer. The waste is either from natural, biological processes or from items on a spacecraft that are deemed no longer useful. Here on Earth, the recognised solution...
February 2022
FPGA computing reaches new heights
...’, rather than having their functions ‘fixed’ once and for all at the point of manufacture. The reconfigurable nature of FPGAs at a hardware level allows for the implementation of redundancy and radiation tolerance, which is of significant importance...
May 2022
Multinational training for interplanetary spaceflight crews
International interplanetary expeditions will, by their very nature, require crew members from different nations to work and live together for extended periods, so an important element of ...
June 2022
Patent protection for space manufacturing
... call for legal certainty when it comes to investing in space, particularly due to the high risk, high cost nature of the industry. Louise Mansion explains some of the key issues. Apatent provides an inventor with a legal right...
June 2022
In-orbit servicing and the future of the space industry
... spot of the Earth multiple times during a day, an essential feature to provide global services. However, the very nature of these orbits, which all cross Earth’s poles, create the perfect condition for high-speed collisions...
January 2023
Asgardia expands its reach
... the birth of the first child in space. “Humanity has to survive, even if its home planet is struck by some natural or human-made disaster,” he said. “Only being in space and developing a fully-fledged life-support system there...
