20 January 2020
ESA facility begins producing oxygen out of simulated moon dust
... applications on the Moon. “Could they be 3D printed directly, for example, or would they require refining?” says ESA research fellow Alexandre Meurisse. “The precise combination of metals will depend on where on the Moon the regolith is acquired...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... resources in the absence of any major government-funded initiative for space debris. In Australia, excellent space debris research outcomes had emerged over 20 years from a series of PPP between government and industry. These PPP sequentially...
15 February 2017
Indian rocket sets new satellite launch record
India has catapulted itself into the spaceflight history books today by successfully launching 104 satellites on a single mission, overtaking the previous record of 37 satellites launched by Russia in 2014. But former ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair ...
07 September 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lander fails to touchdown successfully
India’s attempt to be the first nation to land close to the south pole of the Moon has unfortunately been thwarted as contact with Chandrayaan-2 was lost minutes before its Vikram module was due to touch down at the lunar south pole. The Chandrayaan...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... out on Earth then there is in principle no need to take the detour into space. However, this is not how research and innovation functions. Some discoveries occur by accident (e.g. penicillin, electricity), some through transfer from one field...
September 2026
Towards a research roadmap for human reproduction beyond Earth
...reduced gravity? What effect would cosmic radiation have on embryos? Who decides the ethical boundaries of such research? If humanity truly intends to become a multiplanetary species, these questions cannot remain unanswered. The SRRC ecosystem – how...
