August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... to spectro-radiometric techniques is the fact that, in time, plastic ML at sea accumulates bio-fouling (a layer of microorganisms, plants, algae, animals) on the surface, which could mask the material underneath, preventing detection of the ML item...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
... local communications context. Devices designed to work and communicate on-board the ISS cannot communicate in a hospital or industrial plant setting without having the communications components redesigned. EVA (spacewalk) gloves are one of the most...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
.... Viewing our planet over the southern hemisphere during the swing-by, these filters picked out the plant life of New Zealand and Africa and distinguished between snow and cloud cover over the South...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... for long-term manned missions. For instance, some of the ESA simulants have been used for plant growth experiments, radiation shielding tests and 3D printing capabilities. A building block weighing 1.5 tonnes has already been...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
..., then certainly humanity as we know it. Even today, industries of the US and China consume twice as much oxygen as green plants produce in these countries. They live in debt-consuming oxygen produced by the Russian taiga and Amazon jungles...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
... should be capable of some form of human Moon activities in the next decade. The ILOA is no exception. Once firmly planted on the lunar surface, servicing and technical upgrades required for the ILO-1 mission will necessitate an ILOA...
