17 August 2016
NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission Review Complete
...the boulder to the capture mechanism. Credit: NASA artist’s concept The Asteroid Redirect Mission is expected to send a robotic spacecraft to an asteroid in near-earth space. The spacecraft will retrieve a boulder of a few meters in diameter from the...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
...we have ever undertaken. It will require human and robotic skills, national and international efforts, commercial and government ... today, we are studying the planet’s habitability. Robotic orbiters and landers from many nations will continue to...
February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... slide the table out. And that object, such as a mini-satellite, is now ready to be picked up by the Japanese robotic arm and deployed in its orbit. Sometimes, if our colleagues bug us, we can actually put them outside! During...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... technology, computer and communications networks, artificial intelligence, robotics and the ability to go into space, the ... before. They envision a world which we cohabitate with robots that are as smart as humans and possess sophisticated ‘...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
...to visit a NEA or Mars moon, carrying out precursor robotic missions is important to assess candidate objects Solar sail limitations... now anyway, limited in their use to very small robotic spacecraft flying near the Sun. Sails have flown successfully ...
March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
... of McQueen takes inspiration from space, science fiction and robots: his catwalk models are like cyborgs with their bodysuits ... in 1999 takes inspiration from space, science fiction and robots. His models are like cyborgs with their bodysuits covered...
