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...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... Assistant Professor and heads the Space and Terrestrial Robotic Exploration (SpaceTREx) Laboratory. Jekan has a bachelor... MDA Space Missions. Jekan obtained his Ph.D. in space robotics at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...technology to extract those resources in an efficient manner Two forthcoming robotic space missions, Russia/ESA’s Luna 27 lander and NASA’s ...of local extraction from lunar-based mines, both robotic and astronaut tended. NASA’s Mars 2020 rover research...
