April 2018
Developing Mars
...Mission contracts - room and board At Omaha Crater anything that can be grown or manufactured in the domes or ISRU plants can be stockpiled just as in a general store. These goods can be contracted by spacefaring agencies in bulk, concurrent with the...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
... period of time will cause acute radiation sickness and 10 Sv is often fatal. Emergency workers at Japan’s Fukashima nuclear plant disaster in 2011 received up to 678 mSv, yet none of them suffered acute radiation sickness. The effects of radiation...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
..., SPOT 1 was tasked with acquiring the first 10 m images after the explosion of Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. SPOT 1 demonstrated one of the main benefits of commercial remote sensing for intelligence missions: that it can...
February 2018
Journey of inspiration
... time. They always included me and my sisters in the activities they enjoyed. Mom sewed our clothes, macramed plant hangers, made pottery and hooked rugs; and Dad taught us how to boat and water ski, and...
March 2021
iPhone moment for the Earth observation industry
... work (SatelliteVu), monitor the spread of wildfires (ConstellR, OroraTech) and enhance predictions of crop yields and plant health (ScanWorld). Data sources Several hundred satellites from many different manufacturers are already up in space taking...
May 2021
In-situ propellant design for Mars ascent vehicles
... experiments have been conducted onboard the ISS to understand the effects of microgravity, such as flame formation, bacteria/plant growth and astronaut biology, while cargo transfer to the ISS can be performed easily with existing launch...
