24 May 2017
Tests done on game changing nanotube material for thruster parts
...that much,” explains Michael Meador, Program Element Manager for Lightweight Materials and Manufacturing at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. “I’m not trying to be cliché, but that is a game changer!” The tensile properties of the COPV...
21 August 2017
First Slovak satellite launched into space
... for Space Activities (SOSA), skCUBE successfully blasted into space with the aid of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket, when it hitched a ride along with 30 other satellites...
02 February 2018
How a year in space affects your body
... for the study into metabolomic and genomic markers of atherosclerosis (the hardening and thickening of the arteries). Research showed elevated inflammation biomarkers and a thickening of the carotid artery wall in Scott during and immediately after...
23 April 2018
CubeSats lead the way for new NASA missions
...Called ASTERIA, or the Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics, this new CubeSat satellite that has... brightness of stars, and works similar to TESS by allowing researchers to monitor the brief drop in brightness of nearby stars, ...
03 May 2019
Debris from India's ASAT test worse than predicted
... months earlier for the purpose of the exercise, sat in an orbit at 300 kilometres, said the country’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO). This distance is below that used by many of the hundreds of working satellites in space...
14 June 2019
First experiments on Chinese Space Station announced
... in the next decade. "Our space station is going to be very small... useful to carry out experiments," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K. Sivan told reporters in New Delhi on Thursday. This ambitious plan follows on from India...
