20 April 2020
New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet
... coma abundances represent the bulk composition of volatiles in 2I/ Borisov’s nucleus write Cordiner and colleagues in their research paper, “the detection of HCN and CO emission from the first confirmed, active interstellar comet represents a major...
17 June 2024
EU funds research into inflatable heatshield technology
..., Simone Centuori, said: “This is one of the most innovative projects of the decade encompassing a group of first-rate research organisations and companies. “ICARUS is a key technological enabler for Europe, which will revolutionise European re-entry...
June 2015
Re-usable rockets: a new breakthrough for suborbital research
.... It will dramatically lower prices and create more frequent access to space by several orders of magnitude. It will allow researchers to fly with their experiments — further lowering the complexity, risk, and cost of those very experiments. At World...
November 2016
Simulating space in a bathtub
..., which could be called the gravitational physiology of movement During the first years of using this simulation model, research concentrated mostly on describing the effects of weightlessness on the human body. First and foremost, the studies looked...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... challenges identified in the design of the MICEHAB mission and vehicle that should be addressed in any autonomous biological research facility. First, the MICEHAB vehicle requires high data rate, mostly continuous communications to allow for video...
March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
...of the ESA Fashion in Orbit course at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Her activities are focussed on teaching, design and research on space and extreme environments to facilitate human missions in microgravity and create new opportunities and spin-offs...
