October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
... grand structures were built additively, layer by layer. It is only recently that we have combined the technique with robotics and computer control, enabling 3D printing of objects of nearly any shape using a diverse range of materials, from metals...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
... a “seeing system” designed for a lunar rover in robots that could deliver cargo around warehouses. Today, its clients ... it to the Moon, but its eyesight now helps robots navigate warehouses Some interesting Russian space organisations have nothing to...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... emphasise that mining on Mars is easier and cheaper than mining asteroids. On an asteroid, mining robots face very difficult challenges. Reliable robotic autonomy inside an unpredictable, low-g cloud of gas, dust and shattered rock is a hard problem...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
... must eventually be answered in order to create a full legal framework for transaction. Ownership rights A prototype of the ARM robotic capture module system is tested with a mock asteroid boulder in its clutches at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... of September. The MINERVA-II (MIcro Nano Experimental Robot Vehicles for Asteroid) rovers are successors to the rover... take advantage of the information now being collected by the three robots on the asteroid surface. To add to this data, Hayabusa2...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... The US subordinated all other human space programmes and robotic Moon programmes to President Kennedy’s objective. Thus Gemini ...delays to the overall programme. In the end only the robotic sample return system succeeded: Luna-16 (1970), Luna-20 (1972...
